 | Mobile phone to blast into orbit
24 January 2011
It was announced that British engineers were planning to put a mobile phone in
space. The team at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford wanted to
see if the sophisticated capabilities in today’s phones would function in the most
challenging environment known.
Launched later in the year by the Space Shuttle, the phone ran on Google’s Android
operating system and was used to control a 30cm-long satellite and take pictures of
the Earth.
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