India's 18-year-old student has created the world's lightest satellite

The 18-year-old student, Rifath Shaarook, has designed the world's lightest satellite. The device weighs only 64 grams, even lighter than a smartphone. For him, the sky is not the final boundary.

'We have done a lot of research on the types of satellites around the world and found that our satellites are made the lightest' - Shaarook shared about the 3D model of tiny satellites made of carbon fiber. synthetic.

The device, named KalamSat , was named after the ' Rocketman ' of India, former president APJ Abdul Kalam. He is a pioneering domestic space researcher and head of India's Integrated Missile Development Program.

Rifath Shaarook, an 18-year-old student, has designed the lightest satellite in the world.

'It will have a new processor, 8 built-in sensors to measure the acceleration, rotation and magnetism of Earth' - The young scientist shared with Business Standard about 4cm³ satellite design of me

The design of this 12th grade student helped him win the 'Cube in Space' competition, the student age competition organized by NASA and I Doodle Learning. His reward is to witness his device perform a sub-orbital flight within 4 hours. During that time, it will operate for about 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment.

According to Amber Agee - Dehart, founder of Cubes in Space shared with Quartz: 'Kamslat one of 80 experiments was chosen from 86,000 samples from 57 countries. It will be tested in a missile research study at NASA's Wallops Island Facility, a 15 km² test site at Virgina on June 22. The missile will be launched in the first few minutes but will not move in orbit on Earth. The purpose of the test is to test whether the 3D model of the satellite will withstand the forces needed to launch into space. "

At the moment, Sharook is living in Pallapti, Tamil Nadu State in South India and becoming the leading scientist at the Space Research Institute Chennai headquarters and the creative Space Kidz of India (unit of finance). support for your project).