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NASA has released images obtained from an Android smartphone-powered satellite!

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nasa phonesatThe US civilian space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched three new types of space satellites on April 21. There were two of them HTC The Nexus One was driven and and the other was Samsung Nexus S.

Of course, NASA’s Phoneset The project is nothing new. The project started in 2009 in collaboration with university students. But in recent times it has become a reality.

Android The three smartphones, powered by the operating system, use their stock cameras to take pictures of the Earth from space and send them to NASA. However, compared to other photographs of the company, the photos sent by Fonsat look a little more vague.

However, smartphones should not be blamed for this. Because these pictures did not come directly to the world. These are divided into several segments and transmitted via UHF radio waves. NASA collected them and reattached them to form images. In this case, the meaning of the images may be a little different.

However, the real purpose of NASA has been achieved with the phone set. The company wanted to build space-grade machines using common consumer devices, and that proved to be the least possible. Each phone set cost just ০০ 3,500.

On April 26, 2013, all three phonesets reached the Earth’s atmosphere and then burned them, successfully completing the mission. NASA said.

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