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Androids in Orbit: Smartphones Become Satellites

Smartphones do some impressive things these days: navigation, speech recognition, Angry Birds. Now, add “flying through space” to that list.
Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center have turned three off-the-shelf smartphones into miniature satellites, currently orbiting 150 miles above the Earth.
“A cell phone has all the kinds of sensors ...

Smartphones do some impressive things these days: navigation, speech recognition, Angry Birds. Now, add “flying through space” to that list.
Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center have turned three off-the-shelf smartphones into miniature satellites, currently orbiting 150 miles above the Earth.
“A cell phone has all the kinds of sensors

Source: KQED Radio News

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