Can Android Revolutionize Spacecraft Design?

An anonymous reader writes "NASA's Ames Research Center is working on a new project designed to drastically cut the cost of launching and operating small satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The project, known as PhoneSat, will see the Android powered Nexus One and Nexus S phones command their very own small scale spacecraft this year in a first of its kind research mission."

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[EGSonikku]

We're the Nexus One and One S one of the devices found infringing in the Samsung V Apple trial? Apple is having an injunction hearing soon to get the infringing devices taken off shelves.

Not trolling, just curious. Wouldn't be an issue though I think, as there are no shortage of cheap non-infringing Android phones they could use instead.