PhoneSat 1.0 during high-altitude balloon test. The antenna made from 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).[1]
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.
The construction cost of the first version of PhoneSat satellite was reported to be US$3,500[1] and that of the second version was reported to be below US$7,000. The chassis of all of the PhoneSat series is a single standard CubeSat bus and sized 10cm × 10cm × 10cm (around 4 inches per side). Control software and firmware was made open source whenever possible.
The PhoneSat project was selected by Popular Science magazine as one of eleven "Best of What's New" in the aerospace category in 2012.[2][3]
^ abKlint Finley (2012-08-29). "Nasa lets you build your own satellite with PhoneSat". Wired. Retrieved 2013-04-25. PhoneSat -- a project overseen by Nasa's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.. The first version of Nasa's satellite -- PhoneSat 1.0 -- costs about $3,500 (£2,200) to build....containing an HTC Nexus One phone running the Android operating system
^"25th annual Best of What's New 2012, Aerospace". Popular Science. Archived from the original on 2013-02-28. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
^"NASA PhoneSat. A satellite that uses a cell phone as a central processor". Popular Science. Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
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