If today’s launch of seven satellites in one rocket was a feather in the cap for India’s Space Program, it also carried a first - a smartphone satellite.
One of the satellites is a cubesat or nanosat built by University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre and SSTL called STRaND-1. STRaND-1 is special in that it is the first satellite to be built around a smartphone - a Google Nexus One running Android OS.
There are also many other first and innovative technology implementation in STRaND mission.
When such a first and path breaking launch is on, there should be a path breaking post too, isn’t it?
So here is the video of launch of the Android OS satellite on the PSLV C-20 rocket, captured on my Android OS phone - but this one is a Samsung, captured from my apartment rooftop at Chennai.
A smartphone satellite launch, captured on a smartphone.
:-D
One of the satellites is a cubesat or nanosat built by University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre and SSTL called STRaND-1. STRaND-1 is special in that it is the first satellite to be built around a smartphone - a Google Nexus One running Android OS.
There are also many other first and innovative technology implementation in STRaND mission.
When such a first and path breaking launch is on, there should be a path breaking post too, isn’t it?
So here is the video of launch of the Android OS satellite on the PSLV C-20 rocket, captured on my Android OS phone - but this one is a Samsung, captured from my apartment rooftop at Chennai.
A smartphone satellite launch, captured on a smartphone.
:-D
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