In the early 1960s, the rocket scientist and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was part of a seven-member team at US space agency NASA’s launch site in Virginia. Decades later, a satellite named after him was launched from the same site: at 64 gm, KalamSat is the world’s lightest satellite. The launch is also significant because this is the first time that a satellite’s structure was completely 3D printed with reinforced carbon fibre polymer.

India creates history with launch of world’s smallest satellite

   On June 21st 2017, India created history after NASA launched the world’s smallest satellite, built by an 18-year old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team. Named as KalamSat, after former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the tiny satellite weighs around 64 gms. The satellite was flown into space in a NASA sounding rocket from a NASA facility in Wallops Island.

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