Space NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites by Gary Kopycinski on April 22, 2013 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Space: How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades May 16, 2024 Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape January 12, 2023 Christmas Launch Now for the James Webb Space Telescope December 21, 2021 WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 22, 2013. Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.