PhoneSat was a NASA project started in 2009. Three PhoneSats, nicknamed Alexander, Graham and Bell after the inventor of the telephone, were delivered to Earth orbit to demonstrate the feasibility of an extremely low-cost satellite bus with consumer electronics. Graham and Bell were PhoneSats 1.0 (Nexus One HTC smartphone as the onboard computer running the Android 2.3.3 operating system and a StenSat radio operating at 437.425 MHz) that took 100 pictures and transmitted data on accelerometer sensors, battery levels, magnetometer sensors, and temperatures. Bell, with an Iridium transceiver mounted, also send signals via an Iridium satellite link. Alexander was a PhoneSat 2.0 (Nexus S Samsung smartphone, running the Android 2.3.3 operating system and a StenSat radio operating at 437.425 MHz) that added a two-way S-band radio to command the satellite from Earth, solar panels for longer-duration missions, a GPS receiver and devices to control the satellite's orientation in space. Shortly before was launched in orbit STRaND-1 but the smartphone on board could not be used before satellite unexpectedly turned off in March 2013

Launch date: April 21, 2013
Satellite Catalog No: NORAD ID 39142/4/6
Int'l Designator: COSPAR 2013-016A/E/B
Aplication: Amateur Radio
Configuration: 3 1U
Tags: Space Nanosatellite CubeSat COTS Smartphone