NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-satellites

Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by adestefan on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:22AM (#5613385)

These are in such low orbit that they're still protected by the Van Allen belts. They'd get obliterated by radiation if they were much higher or around the moon, etc.

It also isn't the first phone in space. The UK sent on up earlier this year.

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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by ck2 on Friday April 26, 2013 @11:43AM (#5613525)

I bet somewhere in the Pentagon they have wasted the money to developed a radiation hardened smartphone chip for them to fantasize surviving nuclear fallout.

If so, then NASA could use it for space?

This is an interesting read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#Radiation-h...

Maybe they can just shield conventional chips with depleted boron.

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