August - September,2017
Rifath Sharook The 18-year-old who designed and built the world’s lightest satellite
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.
