NASA Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

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NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

The trio of "PhoneSats" is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA's PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite.

This video was produced as part of the pre-launch coverage airing on NASA-TV before Antares successfully launched.

For more information about the PhoneSat project, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/smallsats

For more information about NASA Ames, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ames

Source: NASA Ames Research Center - YouTube Channel

[Calle]

Thats very cool