Mobile phone to be tested in space

Silicon.com : A research team from the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology plan to send an Android smartphone into orbit on board a 4-kg nanosatellite later this year. Once in space, the phone will be bombarded by cosmic and solar radiation, and experience temperatures that veer between extreme heat and cold. If mobile phone technology is able to function in space, writes Nick Heath for Silicon.com, it would open the door to phone chipsets being used to control future satellite missions, providing a cheaper alternative to the customized spacecraft electronics that are used today.