More Androids in Space - Eyes on Android

As substantially as Southampton University using a HTC smartphone to probe the stratosphere (although that was streaming Windows Phone 7) and the University of county employed with county Satellite Technology to run whatever Android apps in space, Google is employed with NASA for whatever Android-based extra-terrestrial investigations...

The goal, apparently, is to ingest the Nexus S on the International Space Station "to explore how robots crapper support humans research and springy in expanse more efficiently".

In their Google Mobile journal post, Thor adventurer (Creative Lead) and physicist Chen (Software Engineer) write:NASA is using Nexus S phones to raise a triad of volleyball-sized SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites), originally matured by MIT. The phones support the robotic satellites action tasks the astronauts utilised to do, aforementioned transcription device accumulation and capturing recording footage. In the future, the phones will curb and move the SPHERES using the IOIO commission and mayhap the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK).

A pair of our engineers shapely an unstoppered maker device logging app that NASA definite was amend for streaming medicine with the SPHERES. You crapper download the aforementioned app yourself from Android Market. NASA was fascinated in Android because it's an unstoppered maker platform, which makes it cushy to make the code on the sound to foregather the specifications required to control in expanse and work with the SPHERES. Nexus S was also a beatific sound because of its different sensors and low-powered, but high-performing, processor.

There's more most the send on NASA's website >>