NASA’s Android-powered mini-satellites

by Laura Domela

What could you do with $3500 and an old smartphone? You could toss the phone, take the cash, and buy yourself the next best smartphone. Or, with a bit of a DIY attitude, you could push the limits of this hefty piece of technology and use it to power something else.

That’s the initial idea of the PhoneSat project, a small satellite project run by a team of engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The PhoneSat team has built and developed two small satellite models powered by Android smartphones, with the rest of the body constructed mostly of things you could buy at your nearest hardware store.
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NASA’s Android-powered mini-satellites

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