{"id":5585,"date":"2013-12-07T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2013-12-07T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:19:38","slug":"nasas-phonesat-2-4-calls-long-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s PhoneSat 2.4 calls long distance [+ More NASA cubesats]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: Two other NASA cubesat reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2013\/december\/nasa-initiative-helps-launch-student-built-satellites\/#.UqOeJdJDttA\" target=\"_d\">NASA Initiative Helps Launch Student-Built Satellites &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/cubesat\/cube-shaped-satellite-20131206.html#.UqOeUdJDttA\" target=\"_d\">Thinking Inside the Box, Launching into Space &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>NASA Ames reports on their latest PhoneSat:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/nasas-latest-space-technology-small-satellite-phones-home\/#.UqN1fNJDttA\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s Latest Space Technology Small Satellite Phones Home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PhoneSat 2.4, NASA&#8217;s next generation smartphone cubesat has phoned home. The tiny spacecraft that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone for a brain has completed checkout and sent back data confirming all systems are &#8220;go&#8221; for the spry spacefarer.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/phonesat202_1.png?itok=vY7izPT2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NASA Ames engineers are building PhoneSats\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/226xvariable_height\/public\/phonesat202_1.png?itok=vY7izPT2\" width=\"226\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div>\n<div><em>NASA Ames engineers are building PhoneSats, demonstrating how &#8220;off the shelf&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>consumer devices can lead to new space exploration capabilities.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Image Credit:\u00a0NASA Ames Research Center\/Dominic Hart<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PhoneSat 2.4, a cube approximately four inches square, weighs only about 2.2 pounds, and was developed at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. It is first of the PhoneSat family to use a two-way S-band radio, allowing engineers to command the satellite from Earth. It is confirming the viability of using smartphones and other commercially available electronics in satellites destined for low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to hear from NASA&#8217;s most recent cubesat spacecraft,&#8221; said Michael Gazarik, NASA&#8217;s associate administrator for space technology in Washington. &#8220;NASA is committed to opening up the high frontier to a new generation of explorers who can take advantage of these sorts of small satellites to do science and technology development at a fraction of the cost of larger, more complex spacecraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April, NASA successfully demonstrated a one-week mission with PhoneSat 1.0. With an expected orbital lifetime of up to one year, PhoneSat 2.4 will measure how well commercially developed components perform in space over a long period of time. This innovative application of commercially developed technologies for use in space provides for low-cost, low-risk, highly repetitive missions to meet some unique NASA science and exploration needs.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was among 11 agency-sponsored cubesats deployed Nov. 19 by a NASA-built Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 rocket for the U.S. Air Force from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA&#8217;s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>PhoneSat 2.4 also will test a system to control the orientation of the cubesat in space. Like the earlier PhoneSat 1, PhoneSat 2.4 uses a Nexus S smartphone made by Samsung Electronics running Google&#8217;s Android operating system. Santa Clara University in California is providing the ground station for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone provides many of the functions the satellite needs to operate, such as computation, memory, ready-made interfaces for communications, navigation and power, all assembled in a rugged package before launch. Data from the satellite&#8217;s subsystems, including the smartphone, the power system and orientation control system are being downlinked over amateur radio at a frequency of 437.425MHz.<\/p>\n<p>The next PhoneSat, version 2.5, is scheduled to launch in February, hitching a ride aboard a commercial SpaceX rocket. That spacecraft also is expected to perform in Earth orbit for several months and continue testing the two-way radio and orientation systems. The PhoneSat Project is managed by the Engineering Directorate at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The PhoneSat series of missions are pathfinders for NASA&#8217;s next Small Spacecraft Technology mission, the Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks (EDSN). The EDSN mission is composed of eight identical 1.5-unit cubesats, which are each approximately 4 inches by 4 inches by 6 inches in size and weighing about 5.5 pounds, that will be deployed during a launch from Kauai, Hawaii in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The EDSN mission will demonstrate the concept of using many small spacecraft in a coordinated cluster to study the space environment and space-to-space communications techniques. The eight EDSN satellites each will have a Nexus S smartphone for satellite command and data handling, with a scientific instrument added as a payload on each spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>During EDSN, each cubesat will make science measurements and transmit the data to the others while any one of them can then transmit all of the collected data to a ground station. This versatility in command and control could make possible large swarms of satellites to affordably monitor Earth&#8217;s climate, space weather and other global-scale phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>The PhoneSat Project is one of many development projects within NASA&#8217;s Small Spacecraft Technology Program, one of nine programs within NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The Small Spacecraft Technology Program develops and matures technologies to enhance and expand the capabilities of small spacecraft, with a particular focus on communications, propulsion, pointing, power, and autonomous operations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about PhoneSat, the Small Spacecraft Technology Program and NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/spacetech\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/spacetech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Ames, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ames\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ames<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Update: Two other NASA cubesat reports: NASA Initiative Helps Launch Student-Built Satellites &#8211; NASA Thinking Inside the Box, Launching into Space &#8211; NASA ] NASA Ames reports on their latest PhoneSat: NASA&#8217;s Latest Space Technology Small Satellite Phones Home PhoneSat 2.4, NASA&#8217;s next generation smartphone cubesat has phoned home. The tiny spacecraft that uses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s PhoneSat 2.4 calls long distance [+ More NASA cubesats]<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1s5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1688,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1688","url_meta":{"origin":5585,"position":0},"title":"AMSAT and ISS amateur radio news","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS. 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