NASA building satellites with Android phones inside

NASA building satellites with Android phones inside(h30565.www3.hp.com)

9 points by boopsie 13 years ago | 2 comments

centosh 13 years ago |

This is a marketing stunt. Why not use Linux but Android?

richij 13 years ago | |

Aside from the obvious comeback of "the Android kernel is Linux"...

The reason NASA wants to use commercial phones is because it wants to use off-the-shelf hardware. That provides it with an already-extant platform with mature drivers, which doesn't need much custom engineering.

I'm not aware of any mature, free-as-in-speech Linux phones with the sort of power and sensor arrays of the Galaxy Nexus. I guess NASA isn't either. Are you?