Space startup Lynk uses satellite to send text message to unmodified Android phone

One of Lynk’s test payloads attached to the nose of a Cygnus cargo capsule | Image: NASA/Lynk An aerospace startup that plans to launch thousands of satellite “cell towers” into space says it has successfully sent a text message to a common Android smartphone using one of its satellites in orbit. The company claims it’s the first time a text message has ever been sent to an unmodified mobile phone from space, and it demonstrates the technology needed to provide global ce