Friday, February 8, 2013

Google Nexus 1 to Control Satellite, XBox Kincet Next, Seriously

A standard issue Nexus One smart phone will be controlling a new satellite to be launched by the end of February 2012. Granted, it is a "nano satellite" just  30 cm long and weighing 4.3 kg.

Still, using a consumer smart phone as a satellite controller is novel. 

Strand-2 satellite is under development. For that generation of satellites, two cubesats will use the motion-sensing technology in Microsoft's XBox Kinect devices to locate each other in space and dock together.

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