Mobile phones blast into space

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Submission + - Mobile phones blast into space (silicon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 24, 2011 @01:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in the UK are sending an Android handset into space in order to test whether mobile phone chipsets are robust enough to be be used at the basis for controlling future space missions — greatly reducing the cost and weight of spacecraft electronics.

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