{"id":58179,"date":"2012-08-27T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58179"},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:01:10","slug":"android-goes-into-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/58179-android-goes-into-outer-space.html","title":{"rendered":"Android goes into outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s next missions will use Android OS and Google Nexus hardware to build low-cost satellites for space study.<\/p>\n<p>The one mission, PhoneSat 1.0, requires easy-to-assemble satellites to be constructed from a Nexus One, which will be sent into orbit to beam pictures of space back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>PhoneSat 2.0 will expand on the first mission and use a Nexus S, along with other upgrades, which will allow NASA to control the satellite from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Each satellite will cost $3,500 (R29,500*) and will help NASA design and permit more affordable satellites for a variety of purposes.<\/p>\n<p>*Exchange rate calculated at time of article (1\u00a0USD\u00a0=\u00a08.40576\u00a0ZAR)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/57681-the-tech-behind-curiosity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The tech behind Curiosity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyBroadband Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/57249-a-panoramic-view-of-mars.html\"><strong>A panoramic view of Mars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/57637-nasa-mars-rover-takes-aim.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NASA Mars rover takes aim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s PhoneSat projects will send Android devices into space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":58187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,761,14777,1413,14779,7979,10154],"class_list":["post-58179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-nasa","tag-nexus-one","tag-nexus-s","tag-phonesat","tag-quicknews","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58211,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions\/58211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}