All contact with the experimental cubesat Strand 1 has been lost since late March. The exact cause of the failure has not been disclosed, Launched on 25 February as one of the payloads on board an Indian PSLV C Series CA (Core Alone) launch vehicle, the Strand1 (Surrey Training Research adn Nanosatellite Demonstrator 1) satellite was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in conjunction with the University of Surrey. Its mission was to test out Android software as well as the GPS and camera systems of modern mobile Google Nexus 1 smartphone to see if such a phone could be used in space as a communications system, computer, camera, acelerometer and magnetometer. The 3U cubesat satellite of 4kg mass also tested out water/alcohol resistojet, pulsed plasma thruster technologies.
All contact is lost with “smart phone in orbit” Strand 1
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