KALAMSAT WORLD’S SMALLEST SATELLITE INVENTED BY A KID RIFATH SHAROOK

Shaik Masrath
2 min readJul 18, 2022

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Rifath sharooq ,

RIFATH SHAROOQ

An 18 year old teenager from Tamil nadu , Pallapatti town , India who invented world’s smallest satellite named kalamsat , it was sharook ’s project which was very interesting which is a new kind of electronic systems and the point of view is it was mentioned by sharooq that kalamsat components were all taken from scarp. indeed which turned out to be such a great one.

when coming to what actually it is made of , well the nano satellite is of reinforced carbon fibre polymer weighing only 1.26kg(64grams) which is operated for 12min in micro gravity environment of space after its very first flight. Kalamsat V2 is based on the last stage of PSLV ( polar satellite launch vehicle),its main aim is to serve as a long time platform in a orbit for experiments

KALAMSAT WAS LAUNCHED successfully by NASA and it was also a first time that an “Indian students’’ experiment has been carried out by NASA.

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