The Surrey team has a cubesat programme called Strand ( Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator).
The first Strand cubesat currently in development will incorporate a Google Nexus One Android phone.
STRaND-1 now holds the honor of being the first PhoneSat and UK CubeSat that has made it into orbit.
And of course, the granddaddy of them all is the Cubesat, which is being used already for a variety of applications.
Several outfits at the show offered products enabling construction of cubesat and even smaller satellite products including Celestial Circuits, JP Aerospace and Kentucky Space.
"A typical CubeSat mission was a student-built satellite that would maybe go beep or try something out that didn't cost a lot of money, " he says.
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For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
CubeSat is expected to enter orbit next year.
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These use an electric current to heat and ablate a material, producing a charged gas that can then be accelerated in one direction in a magnetic field to push the cubesat in the other direction.
One of the latest is the so-called ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite developed by MIT and Draper Laboratory, which recently got the go-ahead from NASA's Cubesat Launch Initiative and is now set to hitch a ride into space sometime in 2012.
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Google's Nexus One has dreamt of space travel for a while now, but on Monday it was finally launched into orbit aboard a CubeSat dubbed STRaND-1, which was developed by Surrey Satellite Technology and the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre.
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