NASA launches world's lightest satellite designed by 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student
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Smallest 3D-printed satellite
On Thursday, India once again broke a global space record by launching the world's lightest satellite weighing a mere 64 grams, called Kalamsat, designed and developed not by professional space scientists and engineers, but by 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team.
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Named after Abdul Kalam
The tiny satellite, named after Abdul Kalam, was flown by a Nasa sounding rocket and the lift-off was from the space agency's Wallop Island facility around 3pm (IST). Kalamsat was the only Indian payload in the mission.
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A satellite made at home
Mission director Srimathy Kesan told Times of India that the total flight time of the rocket was 240 minutes. The satellite, assembled at her T.Nagar residence in Chennai, separated from the rocket after spending 125 minutes in the space's micro-gravity environment.
"Kalamsat fell into the sea. It will be recovered and Nasa will be sending it back to us for decoding the data," she said.
"Kalamsat fell into the sea. It will be recovered and Nasa will be sending it back to us for decoding the data," she said.
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Specs of the smallest satellite
The satellite, weighing a mere 64 grams, can be held in one's palm is a 3.8cm cube and its structure is fully 3D-printed with reinforced carbon fiber polymer. It is equipped with a nano Geiger Muller counter which will measure radiation in space.