Lightest Satellite

While many 18-year-olds are worrying about college, Rifath Shaarook from India spent his time building the world’s lightest satellite, from scratch. Weighing a mere 64 grams, the device will now go on a four-hour mission aboard a sub-orbital NASA flight during which it will operate for around 12-minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space. “We did a lot of research on different cube satellites all over the world and found ours was the lightest,” said Shaarook about his 3D-printed, carbon fiber small-scale satellite. Continue reading for more pictures and information.

Lightest Satellite
Lightest Satellite

“It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere of the earth,” said Sharook.

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