Meet the Indian teen who has developed world's smallest satellite for Nasa

Meet the Indian teen who has developed world's smallest satellite for Nasa

[KalamSat, developed by Tamil Nadu's Rifath Sharook, will be launched by Nasa rocket on June 21]

When the US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) launches the world’s smallest satellite KalamSat on June 21, it will be the first time ever that it would be piloting an experiment by an Indian student. Developed by Rifath Sharook, an 18year-old boy, from Tamil Nadu’s Pallapatti town, KalamSat weighs only 64 grammes.

Also Read :After India-Pak face-off, ICJ says ruling on Jadhav 'as soon as possible' ‘KalamSat’, named after India's nuclear scientist and former President, APJ Abdul Kalam, will be launched from a Nasa facility in Wallops Island. Sharook’s project, the first to be manufactured via 3D printing, got selected through a competition, ‘Cubes in Space', sponsored jointly by NASA and 'I Doodle Learning'. The project aims to take the performance of new technology to space.

Key features of the miniature satellite Sharook said it would be a sub-orbital flight and after launch the mission span would be 240 minutes. The tiny satellite would operate for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space. “The main role of the satellite will be to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed carbon fibre”, the Times of India quoted Sharook as saying.

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