But it is capable of running Linux, and -according to the specsheet- MS Windows XP. I doubt that, with just 256MB on board, but hey - it uses no more than 5 Watts peak, 3 Watts average!
Something like that would have been heard, coming from an object, circling the earth, just like an artificial moon. The space age was born, today, fifty years ago, with the launch of the sputnik. And it's animal's day, of course.