Android smartphone satellite in space

[Maestro]

In April this year NASA had three smartphone satellites in space, two HTC Nexus One and an ASUS Nexus 4, to transmit photos and scientific data to NASA for a few days. In about five hours, an smartphone satellite will again be dispatched into space and we can watch the launch live on our computer screen. The NASA announcement quoted below does not mention the brand or model of the phone but I understand from a German-language publication that it is a phone running the Android 2.4 operating system and is expected to transmit data for two years.

Air Force Minotaur Rocket Launching from Virginia November 19

Nov. 15, 2013

FLIGHT FACILITY, Va. — A United States Air Force Minotaur I rocket is scheduled to lift-off at 7:30 p.m. EST, Nov.19, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0B at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Minotaur will launch the Air Force's Operationally Responsive Space Office's ORS-3 mission, which features the deployment of 29 satellites in space.

The launch window is 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The backup launch days run through November 26.

Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/content/air-force-minotaur-rocket-launching-from-virginia-november-19/#.UovR1MSshcY

[Maestro]

This is the tiny satellite being launched in production:

[Maestro]

The live stream is up: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops

Take-off minus 1 hour (T-1 h)