Smartphones Sent into Space [Mobile Radio]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched three smartphone satellites. The three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.?s Antares rocket from NASA?s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The trio of ?PhoneSats? is operating in orbit and may prove to be the lowest cost satellites ever flown in space. The goal of NASA?s PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumergrade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite.