{"id":644614,"date":"2013-02-28T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=133180"},"modified":"2013-02-28T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:39:15","slug":"how-to-make-space-fans-jealous-send-the-google-nexus-one-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644614","title":{"rendered":"How to make space fans jealous &#8212; send the Google Nexus One into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LEDMTwlx_zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Forget about the boring <a title=\"Is iPhone 5 right for you? [review]\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/09\/25\/is-iphone-5-right-for-you-review\/\" >Apple iPhone 5<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Rise of the quad star -- Samsung Galaxy S III [review]\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/06\/19\/rise-of-the-quad-star-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review\/\" >Samsung Galaxy S III<\/a>\u00a0for a moment, because while they may be impressive in their own right, both handsets now pale in comparison to the HTC-built Google Nexus One. The three year-old smartphone is the first to reach outer space and is circling around the Earth right now &#8212; a feat that easily tops any other hardware or software feature.<\/p>\n<p>HTC claims the Nexus One is the &#8220;world&#8217;s first smartpho-naut&#8221; after the Android-powered device skyrocketed onto orbit from India, aboard the STRaND-1 nanosatellite. And that&#8217;s not the best part. The STRaND-1 features\u00a0WARP DRiVE (Water Alcohol Resistojet Propulsion Deorbit Re-entry Velocity Experiment) and\u00a0electric PPTs\u00a0(Pulsed Plasma Thrusters).\u00a0How cool does that sound?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133329\" title=\"STRaND-1\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/STRaND-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>The Surrey Space Centre ground station at the University of Surrey commissions and operates the STRaND-1, which can also be tracked by amateur radio operators. Furthermore, the nanosatellite will switch from onboard systems to the Nexus One and adjacent apps, after the necessary testing has been carried out. Surrey Satellite Technology Limited\u00a0informs us that the apps (&#8220;some serious and some just for fun&#8221;) were developed by winners of a Facebook competition that was held in 2012. Interesting, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) previous announcement about <a title=\"NASA sends HTC\/Google Nexus One...into space\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/10\/10\/nasa-sends-htcgoogle-nexus-one-into-space\/\" >strapping the Nexus One onto a rocket<\/a> in 2010 is really dull by comparison &#8212; it did not involve plasma thrusters nor a water-alcohol propulsion system. That said, the two projects share a similar concept &#8212; the Nexus One is used to take pictures or shoot videos, among other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.360app.co.uk\/\" >360app<\/a>, &#8220;gravity-bound folks&#8221; can &#8220;play big brother\u00a0and request snapshots&#8221; immortalized with the smartphone. You can also follow up on the activity of STRaND-1 via <a title=\"360App\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360App\" >360app&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> or <a title=\"Surrey Nanosats\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SurreyNanosats\" >Surrey Nanosats&#8217; Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0where both teams share new details every day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=cfNaS49crEk:9eqK9JKYDxg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=cfNaS49crEk:9eqK9JKYDxg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/cfNaS49crEk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about the boring Apple iPhone 5\u00a0and Samsung Galaxy S III\u00a0for a moment, because while they may be impressive in their own right, both handsets now pale in comparison to the HTC-built Google Nexus One. The three year-old smartphone is the first to reach outer space and is circling around the Earth right now &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}