Smartphones Sent into Space [Mobile Radio]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched three smartphone satellites. The three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space 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 lowestcost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA´s PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumergrade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite.