{"id":656183,"date":"2013-05-05T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=160558"},"modified":"2013-05-05T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T13:43:36","slug":"nasa-receives-images-from-nexus-phonesat-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656183","title":{"rendered":"NASA receives images from Nexus PhoneSat satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/160558-nasa-receives-images-from-nexus-phonesat-satellites\/nasa_photos_from_nexus_one\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-160568\" alt=\"NASA_Photos_From_Nexus_One\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NASA_Photos_From_Nexus_One-630x473.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA certainly isn&#8217;t new to the task of taking images of the earth from space&#8212; however, this would be the first time that these images were taken using &#8220;PhoneSats,&#8221; a new, super-cheap, super-small type of <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/152197-htc-nexus-one-is-officially-the-first-smartpho-naut-as-part-of-the-nasa-phonesat-program\/\">satellite powered by Android smartphones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Launched into orbit last month with the goal of showing that it is possible to create space-worthy hardware from consumer-grade devices, Alexander, Graham, and Bell (the names of the three satellite devices) returned blurry images before burning up in the atmosphere as planned on April 27th. \u00a0<span id=\"more-160558\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Using their stock cameras, the three satellites, built from two HTC Nexus One smartphones and one Samsung Nexus S smartphone, snapped images and transmitted them back to the earth in separate pieces, as packets of data over the UHF radio band.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the project only cost NASA $3,500 per satellite, including build and launch. \u00a0The next generation of the PhoneSats are expected to launch later this year, with added functionality and increased longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Ftopics%2Ftechnology%2Ffeatures%2FPhoneSat_PHOTO_Feature.html&#038;sref=rss\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/160558-nasa-receives-images-from-nexus-phonesat-satellites\/\">NASA receives images from Nexus PhoneSat satellites<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/l0ot4l5ko0s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/2LgB25u-FDc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA certainly isn&#8217;t new to the task of taking images of the earth from space&#8212; however, this would be the first time that these images were taken using &#8220;PhoneSats,&#8221; a new, super-cheap, super-small type of satellite powered by Android smartphones. Launched into orbit last month with the goal of showing that it is possible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656183","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\/8198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}