{"id":26292,"date":"2017-05-23T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=26292"},"modified":"2017-05-23T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:00:48","slug":"kalamsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kalamsat\/","title":{"rendered":"KalamSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: World\u2019s lightest satellite \u2018KalamSat\u2019 has been built by\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Rifath Sharook<br \/>\n(b) Sheikh Farooq<br \/>\n(c) Dilip Sangvan<br \/>\n(d) None of the above.<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<br \/>\nRelated Fact :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>World\u2019s lightest working satellite \u2018KalamSat\u2019 was launched on June 21, 2017 from NASA&#8217;s Wallops Space Center in the United States on a SR-4 rocket.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite has been named &#8216;KalamSat&#8217; in memory of the world-renowned scientist and late President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite has been built by Rifath Sharook, an 18 year old student from Pallapatti in Karur district of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>The four-centimeter cube satellite weighs 64 grams and includes sensors to measure temperature and radiation levels, among other data.<\/li>\n<li>Rifath&#8217;s satellite was chosen from 86,000 designs submitted by teams from 57 countries in a &#8216;Cubes in Space&#8217; contest held by NASA and &#8216;I Doodle Learning\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The main role of the satellite would be to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed carbon fiber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/tamil-nadu-teen-lightest-satellite-kalamsat-nasa\/1\/956871.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/tamil-nadu-teen-lightest-satellite-kalamsat-nasa\/1\/956871.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: World\u2019s lightest satellite \u2018KalamSat\u2019 has been built by\u2026 (a) Rifath Sharook (b) Sheikh Farooq (c) Dilip Sangvan (d) None of the above. Ans: (a) Related Fact : World\u2019s lightest working satellite \u2018KalamSat\u2019 was launched on June 21, 2017 from NASA&#8217;s Wallops Space Center in the United States on a SR-4 rocket. KalamSat will begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-26292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}