Nexus 1 blasts off to 28,000 feet, looks slightly worse 4 wear (video)
Your average satellite these days`s roughly on par in terms of size w/ your average liv`g room, give or take, & so naturally the cost of loft`g 1 into orbit is, if you’ll pardon the phrase, sky high . Despite that, many offer less process`g power the mobile processor like Snapdragon . The obvious solution? Chuck the smartphone into orbit & revel in the savings. That’s the idea behind the PhoneSat, helped along by the Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, which strapped the Nexus 1 into the rocket w/ 1,000lbs of thrust & threw it up to 28,000 feet to C how it copes w/ the immense stress of rid`g into space. Of course, 28,000 feet isn’t quite space (NASA`ld`ve run out of astronaut badges long ago), although (unless) the G-forces & temperature cycles felt dur`g this short trip R comparable to the one-way voyage to orbit. The 1st such launch didn’t go so well, w/ the rocket suffer`g the ballistic return — com`g in like the projectile without the ‘chute. The shattered remains of Z R shown above. But, the 2nd flight`s rather more successful, & the video results can B seen below — captured by the phone itself
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