Question: World’s lightest satellite ‘KalamSat’ has been built by…
(a) Rifath Sharook
(b) Sheikh Farooq
(c) Dilip Sangvan
(d) None of the above.
Ans: (a)
Related Fact :
- World’s lightest working satellite ‘KalamSat’ was launched on June 21, 2017 from NASA’s Wallops Space Center in the United States on a SR-4 rocket.
- KalamSat will begin working once it enters the sub-orbital path. It will function for 12 minutes and will record different data before falling into the sea.
- The satellite has been named ‘KalamSat’ in memory of the world-renowned scientist and late President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
- The satellite has been built by Rifath Sharook, an 18 year old student from Pallapatti in Karur district of Tamil Nadu.
- The four-centimeter cube satellite weighs 64 grams and includes sensors to measure temperature and radiation levels, among other data.
- Rifath’s satellite was chosen from 86,000 designs submitted by teams from 57 countries in a ‘Cubes in Space’ contest held by NASA and ‘I Doodle Learning’.
- The main role of the satellite would be to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed carbon fiber
Reference:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tamil-nadu-teen-lightest-satellite-kalamsat-nasa/1/956871.html