Will Marshall, co-founder of Planet, describes the outcome of PhoneSat, a project where his team at NASA launched commercial Android smartphones into orbit inside miniature satellites.
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“And the phones worked just fine in space, and we had amateur radio astronomers around the world get these little Yagi antennas, these little handheld antennas, to follow the satellite, the little pictures it had been taking with the Phone camera. And email them to us, and then we reconstructed these pictures, and we're like, okay, it worked.”
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