NASA - NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture

posted on 03/05/2013 20:03

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/PhoneSat_PHOTO_Feature.html →

[…] Although the ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space, the three miniature satellites used their smartphone cameras to take pictures of Earth and transmitted these “image-data packets” to multiple ground stations. Every packet held a small piece of “the big picture.” As the data became available, the PhoneSat Team and multiple amateur ham radio operators, who call themselves “hams,” pieced together a high-resolution photograph from the tiny data packets. […]

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