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This Hitchhiking Satellite — Launching Today — Is Small Enough To Fit In Your Hand
A “PhoneSat”, which is intended to show how ordinary consumer devices can explore space. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart
Talk about tiny technology. The NASA PhoneSat 2.4, which is set to launch today (Nov. 19), is so small that the satellite can easy fit in just one of your hands. The agency is quite excited about this second in the series of PhoneSat launches; the first, in April, saw three “smartphone satellites” working in orbit for a week.
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