Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cellphones and Toys
• Jess McNally via WIREDInstead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology.
Or they could have just given one of the astronauts a couple of phones to take with him up to the space shuttle. Maybe put one in the cargo bay. I think that the incremental cost to orbit is only 10K a lb.