{"id":319868,"date":"2017-05-17T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319868"},"modified":"2017-05-17T06:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T06:40:48","slug":"indian-teen-builds-worlds-lightest-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319868","title":{"rendered":"Indian teen builds world&#8217;s &#8216;lightest satellite&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world&#8217;s lightest satellite, which will be launched at a Nasa facility in the US in June.<\/p>\n<p>Rifath Shaarook&#8217;s 64-gram (0.14 lb) device was selected as the winner in a youth design competition.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old says its main purpose was to demonstrate the performance of 3-D printed carbon fibre.<\/p>\n<p>Rifath told local media his invention will go on a four-hour mission for a sub-orbital flight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\">\n<figure style=\"width: 976px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/174FE\/production\/_96068459_facebookcapture.jpg\" alt=\"A small satellite cube next to a coin\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image copyrightFACEBOOK\/RIFATHSHAAROOK Image captionA beta version of the satellite illustrates just how small the device is<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During that time, the lightweight satellite will operate for around 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We designed it completely from scratch,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere of the earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite has been named KalamSat after former Indian president Abdul Kalam, a pioneer for the country&#8217;s aeronautical science ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>His project was selected in a challenge called Cubes in Space, organised by education company idoodle with support from Nasa and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomer scientist Rifath comes from a small town in Tamil Nadu and now works as lead scientist at Chennai-based Space Kidz India, an organisation promoting science and education for Indian children and teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>The KalamSat is not his first invention: at the age of 15, he built a helium weather balloon as a part of nationwide competition for young scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world&#8217;s lightest satellite, which will be launched at a Nasa facility in the US in June. Rifath Shaarook&#8217;s 64-gram (0.14 lb) device was selected as the winner in a youth design competition. The 18-year-old says its main purpose was to demonstrate the performance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[516,7193,1614],"class_list":["post-319868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-india","tag-lightest-satellite","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}