PhoneSat

PhoneSat Graham

NASA video via PhoneSats

PhoneSat is a program at NASA's Ames Research Center that uses off- the- shelf , low-cost smartphones for avionics from Cubesat satellites.

Starts

On April 21, 2013, the first three PhoneSats Alexander, Graham and Bell were launched. The launch took place from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport with an Antares rocket , as a secondary payload together with a Cygnus dummy and the commercial Dove-1 -CubeSat. With their names, the satellites are reminiscent of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell .

These three PhoneSats broadcast as amateur radio satellites under the amateur radio call sign KJ6KRW on the frequency 437.425 MHz in the operating mode AX.25 . They burned up on 26./27. April when re-entering the earth's atmosphere .

Phonesat 2.4 was launched on November 20, 2013 on a Minotaur-I rocket .

Phonesat 2.5 launched on April 18, 2014 on a Falcon 9 .

Commons : PhoneSat - collection of pictures, videos and audio files