July 29th, 2010 by Alan Matson

A Nexus One Takes a 28,000ft Trip Straight Up Into the Sky

Up, Up and Away. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a Nexus One heading towards space. A group called the Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation strapped the phone to an Intimidator-5 rocket and sent it hurdling up 28,000 feet in the air above the Nevada desert.

The phone was attached to another project called ‘Clotho’. The participants wanted to see how the effects of space, vibration, and the thermal properties in the atmosphere reacted on the phone. You can see the video of the rocket ride below.

Thomas Atchison, chairman of the Mavericks Foundation stated “The purpose of flying the Nexus One is to find a low-cost satellite solution”, “The radio, processing power, sensors and cameras in smartphones potentially have the same capability as those in satellites.”