2007-03-25 13:18:16 · 9 answers · asked by Rick 7 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
Don't tell anyone, but i have tried mine on an airplane over the usa, and it worked....hope i didnt mess up the airplane
2007-03-25 13:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by burga kiiong nocca 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your Cell phone would do very, very well in outer space. As opposed to using it here at ground level. You see, your cell phone operates at roughly 930 mhz. which is a Low microwave frequency. Frequencies of this sort don't do well with obstructions like trees or buildings since they cannot propagate around or through them. Like lower frequencies can, especially frequencies in the HF band and lower. So since outer space has no obstructions, your signal will travel untill it meets one. Consider the Voyager 1 & the Voyager 2 space craft which have totally escaped our solar system 20 years ago and are STILL transmiting !. Also, they are transmiting at only 1/4 watt !!!..........ie: your cell phone operates approx. 3 full watts.
2007-03-25 13:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by cheezychesster 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cellphones have very low powered transmitters which is why there are so many cell towers scattered about the landscape. In general, a wireless phone would have a range of only a few miles.
2007-03-25 13:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Randy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the frequency that cell towers utilize only travel a 3 to 4 mile radius.
2007-03-25 13:22:02 · answer #4 · answered by Gman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
am afraid your cellphone might not be able to work from outerspace. this is because the regular cellphones we use daily operate on the principle of electromagnetic (EM) waves and fields. and am happy to announce to u that at a distance of over 500km above sea level (where the ionosphere ends), there ceases to be any form of EM fields (can be likened to an EM vacuum). hence, only special types of communication equipment specially designed to work in that range can actually work there...
2007-03-25 13:33:15 · answer #5 · answered by bee-day-me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cellphones have a limited range which is why you get bad reception if you are not close enough to a mast. Space is far away so you wouldn't get a signal out there.
2007-03-25 13:21:21 · answer #6 · answered by Joe1664 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they use towers on earth. And even if you had a satellite phone I doubt it would either because they point the signal directly at earth. They don't send it in a 360º signal.
2007-03-25 13:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if it's a Metro PCS.
(Serious answer: I don't think so, although there may be special arrangements on the space station to allow astronauts/cosmonauts/etc. to communicate with one another.)
May God bless you.
2007-03-25 13:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-03-25 13:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by corflaten 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋