18 Old Indian Boy Develops World’s ‘Smallest’ satellite For NASA

18 Old Indian Boy Develops World’s ‘Smallest’ satellite For NASA

An eighteen year old boy from Tamil Nadu break a global space record because he designed the lightest satellite the world have ever seen. And the satellite weighs just 64 grams.

The satellite will be launched by NASA sounding rocket on June 21 from Wallops Island. And  it will be the first time an Indian student’s experiment will be piloted by NASA.

Rifath while speaking to TOI said that mission span will be 240 minutes and the little satellite can operate for 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space. 

He explained;

“The main role of the satellite will be to demonstrate the performance of 3-D printed carbon fibre,” He also said that his satellite was selected through a contest known as “Cubes in Space” which is jointly organized by NASA and an ‘I Doodle Learning’ organization.

Rifath said that; the satellite is made mainly to reinforced carbon fibre polymer. “We did a lot of research on different cube satellites all over the world and found ours was the lightest. He also said that “We obtained some of the components from abroad and some are indigenous”. 

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