Six Indian students have made the country proud by designing the world’s lightest and smallest satellite.
It was a moment of pride for the country as world’s smallest and lightest experimental satellite-“KalamSat” was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into sub-orbital space by SR 4 rocket at on June 21.
There was a competition called Cubes of Space, which was jointly provided by NASA and ‘I Doodle Learning’, for Students to design and compete to launch an experiment into space via sounding rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, VA.
It was this competition, where Md. Rifath Sharook, an 18-year-old student from Pallapatti, Tamil Nadu and his team participated in and out of 86,000 designs selected from 57 countries, Rifath’s team were the only winners from India. It took them over eight months of hard work for achieving this amazing feat.
The team consisted of 7 people from various parts of India led by Rifath Shaarook who is the Lead Scientist of Space Kidz India, Tanishq Dwivedi (Flight Engineer), Vinay S Bhardwaj (Design Engineer), Yagna Sai (Lead Technician), Mohammed Abdul Kashif (Lead Engineer), Gobinath (Biologist) under the supervision of Dr. Srimathy Kesan, Founder & CEO of Space Kidz India.
The tiny Satellite ‘KalamSat’, has been named after India's nuclear scientist and former President, Late APJ Abdul Kalam. It is 3.8 cm, cube-shaped, and weighs approximately around 64 grams. It is a 3D printed satellite made using reinforced carbon fiber polymer and is equipped with nano Geiger-Muller counter for measuring radiation in space.It will have a new kind of on board computer and eight built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation, and the magnetosphere of Earth.
'Kalamsat' has been sponsored by Dr. Srimathy Kesan, founder and chief executive officer of Space Kids India. The launch was previously scheduled on June 21, 2017, but it got postponed to June 22 at around 3pm (IST) due to in unfavorable weather conditions.
According to Dr. Kesan, Kalamsat was separated from the NASA rocket 125 minutes after it took off, and fell into the sea. It will be recovered and NASA will be sending it back to the team for decoding the data.
Dr. Kesan described this launch as a “divine intervention”.
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