A small but mighty UK-built satellite is about to take flight.
STRaND-1, billed as the world's first "smartphone satellite", will be a demonstration of the power of even the smallest orbiting machines. Although it is only controlled by a Google smartphone running an Android operating system, it includes capabilities common to satellites including taking pictures, doing computer calculations at high speed and staying in constant communications.
By: Elizabeth Howell, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/08/smartphone-satellites
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