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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by skeletonjelly on Monday August 27, 2012 @04:48AM (#4437975)
They'll be bared from entering into a rounded orbit.
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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by nedwin on Monday August 27, 2012 @05:26AM (#4438050)
You jest but a Boeing patent on a specific satellite manuever had the effect of decommissioning a satellite.

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6116545

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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by nedwin on Monday August 27, 2012 @05:33AM (#4438065)
The full story here: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down...
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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by colinshark on Monday August 27, 2012 @07:37AM (#4438317)
Perhaps patents will be the last thing that saves human-driven cars.

You can get an injunction against self-driving cars that can do the newly patented three-point-turn (its not prior art because now it uses a COMPUTER system!), but you can't stop a driver from doing it!

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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by hobbyhacker on Monday August 27, 2012 @06:53AM (#4438229)
Patents definitely foster progress by the looks of it.
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