Nexus One Blasted 5 Miles Into the Sky [POV Video]
by Michael Suen | 5:47 pm, July 30th
Apologies if you thought the title was an elaborate pornographic allusion, but I’m being completely literal: After the jump, you will see Google‘s recently shuttered Nexus One film itself BEING SHOT 28,000 FEET INTO THE AIR, or about 5.3 miles vertically.
The event was part of the PhoneSat initiative; with the support of the Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, they strapped the smart phone with a parachute to a rocket with 1,000 lbs of thrust, to test whether the phones could be sent high enough to enter orbit. This captured video, by the way, is from the second phone launched into the sky. We won’t tell you what happened to the first one (it shattered into a million pieces).
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