India launches world’s first “Phonesat” smart phone successfully launched into orbit. Loaded with a number of experimental ‘Apps’, some services some just for fun. The Mission was designed to test commercial technologies in outerspace. This launch was SSTL’s first with ISRO.
The British built Strand-1 Spacecraft, a nano satellite developed by scientists in Surrey was sent into orbit from Sriharikota in India. To test the capabilities of a standard smartphone in a space environment.
Amateur radio operators can track STRaND-1 from across the world. Details of frequency are available at www.amsat-uk.org