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STRAND-1
UK CubeSat (Smartphone-Controlled Technology Demonstrator) · Surrey Space Centre / SSTL (UK)
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STRaND-1, a British smartphone-powered satellite launched in 2013 carrying an actual off-the-shelf Google Nexus One smartphone as its onboard computer — a genuinely playful experiment testing whether cheap consumer electronics, running unmodified Android software, could survive spaceflight and control a spacecraft.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 476–483 mi (767–777 km)
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- One orbit
- 100.1 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 39090
- Int’l designator
- 2013-009E
- Launched
- 2013
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.