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Surrey opens a competition on "Facebook" for a satellite launch

London, England - To create 4 smartphone applications

Surrey experts in space technology have called yesterday August 1st an on-line competition on the social network "Facebook" to develop innovative applications that will be used on smartphone-powered satellite STRaND-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator), to be launch into space next year. Built during researches' free time, the nanosatellite weights 4 kg and it has been realized...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1132525
Rome, Italy, 08/02/2011 17:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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