The University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are set to launch the world’s first smartphone-based satellite. Built around a Google Nexus One smartphone running on the Android operating system, the STRaND-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator) satellite will also be the U.K.’s first CubeSat to go into space. .. Continue Reading STRaND-1 – world's first smartphone-based satellite set to launch
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Tags: CubeSat, Launch, Satellite, Smartphones, Space, Spacecraft, SSTL, Surrey University
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