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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by lucaspiller on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:00AM (#5613273)
> near absolute-zero temps

Although space is cold, due to the vacuum the biggest issue is getting heat away from the devices. That's why the main part of EVA suits is liquid cooling.

> radiation of space without being using radiation hardened silicon

They are only in low earth orbit, so the magnetic field of the earth would provide pretty good protection.

Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by spiritplumber on Friday April 26, 2013 @09:25PM (#5616423)
Phonesats have low enough mass that magnetorquers can provide all the attitude control, too.