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Mobile phones in space, Potentially lowering the cost of spacecraft design?
jasedm
post Jan 25 2011, 06:47 PM
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An interesting mission outlined here proposes to blast a high-street mobile phone into orbit, to determine whether its processing power would be adequate to control a satellite in orbit.

Assuming the components within an ordinary handset can survive in space (it will be partly shielded by the satellite's casing) this might have appreciable effects on cost for some unmanned missions in the future.
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- jasedm   Mobile phones in space   Jan 25 2011, 06:47 PM
- - tasp   I am of two minds about this. While I am extremel...   Jan 25 2011, 07:09 PM
- - hendric   Well, the software on a typical mobile phone is no...   Feb 1 2011, 03:31 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (hendric @ Feb 1 2011, 07:31 AM) An...   Feb 1 2011, 03:56 PM
- - hendric   Ah, duh. Helps if I read the full article.   Feb 1 2011, 07:02 PM
- - stevesliva   COTS ARM-based architectures in space doesn't ...   Feb 1 2011, 07:36 PM

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