A student from India won the Cubes in Space competition, organized by NASA. The satellite he invented will perform a four-hour suborbital flight, during which he will spend 12 minutes under microgravity conditions. The launch is scheduled for June 21 from the launch pad of NASA on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rifat Shaaruk named his KalamSat companion in honor of former Indian President Abdul Kalam. The smallest and lightest satellite in the world was printed on a 3D printer made of carbon fiber. It has a cubic shape with a rib length of four centimeters, and weighs only 64 grams.
At the same time KalamSat has an on-board computer and eight sensors measuring the acceleration, rotation and magnetosphere of the Earth. The satellite is made in the form of a cube with a rib length of four centimeters and weighing only 64 grams, and all the stages of development the student performed independently.
