Google’s Nexus One phone is starting where few smartphones have left before. A organisation strapped the Nexus One to a behind of the rocket as well as launched it from a Nevada dried into a atmosphere to test a device’s opening up in the air.

The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, a group of sky rocket enthusiasts, used an Intimidator-5 sky rocket to send a device 28,000 feet into a ambience.

“The role of drifting a Nexus One is to find a low-cost heavenly body resolution,” says Thomas Atchison, authority of the Mavericks Foundation. “The airwave, estimate power, sensors as well as cameras in smartphones potentially have a same capability as those in satellites.”

The thought is to drive down heavenly body price by using off-the-shelf products as well as components, says Atchison.

“Today’s satellites are a size of Greyhound buses,” he says. “But I believe they have been going to get not as big as well as some-more frequently deployed. This is a first-step effort.”

The Nexus One piggybacked upon a sky rocket that’s being used as part of the plan called Clotho that’s perplexing to find out how distant off a earth’s aspect holdup exists.

The test flight with a Nexus One was to see how a device behaves underneath a high-G surroundings, says Atchison.

“If you put a Nexus One in orbit, how will it perform?” he says. “How does a device hoop a thermal heat as well as vibrations. We longed for to see a results.”

The resulting video from a Nexus One is next. As expected, a video is the lot of jolt, blue sky as well as blobs of light, but it is still fun to watch. An progressing exam brought Nexus One behind with the cracked shade but a device did well upon its second moody.

James Dougherty, one of a participants in a plan, shows the cargo with the biosampling module as well as the Google phone.