PhoneSat
Sign in to savethumb|PhoneSat 1.0 during high-altitude balloon test. The antenna made from Tape measure|yellow tape measure is deployed. PhoneSat is an ongoing NASA project of building nanosatellites using unmodified consumer-grade off-the-shelf smartphones and Arduino platform and launching them into Low Earth Orbit. This project is part of NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program and was started in 2009 at NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, California).
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- artificial satellite of the Earth
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- space exploration
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9 sectionsContents
- Versions
- PhoneSat 1.0
- PhoneSat 2.0
- PhoneSat 2.4 and PhoneSat 2.5
- Follow-on projects
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thumb|PhoneSat 1.0 during high-altitude balloon test. The antenna made from Tape measure|yellow tape measure is deployed. PhoneSat is an ongoing NASA project of building nanosatellites using unmodified consumer-grade off-the-shelf smartphones and Arduino platform and launching them into Low Earth Orbit. This project is part of NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program and was started in 2009 at NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, California).
When the project started, a typical smartphone had a faster CPU and more memory than the average satellite, one or two cameras, multiple acceleration and rotation sensors, a compass, a GPS receiver, radios, and a Li-Ion battery, all of which had benefited from significant research and development efforts and economy of scale in the telecommunications industry to reduce cost.
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