Student-made Kalamsat V2, world’s lightest satellite, to be put in orbit

Kalamsat-V2 was made by students belonging to Space Kidz India, a Chennai-based space education firm.
ISRO will launch the satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 11: 37 pm on 24 Jan, 2019.
Kalam SAT is a Femto Satellite.
It is named Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and was built by an Indian High school student team, led by Rifath Sharook, an 18-year-old from the Tamil Nadu town of Pallapatti.
This 10-cm cube and the first 3-D printed satellite has a life span of two months and weighs 1.2 kg.
It is built at a cost of Rs 12 lakh and will be first to use the rocket’s fourth stage as an orbital platform. Following this, the fourth stage will be moved to a higher circular orbit to establish an orbital platform from where it will carry out experiments.
“The main purpose of student satellites is to enable students to conduct experiments in space. We see that students get involved in the whole process of building the associated systems, including the satellite bust and power system, instead of concentrating on the main science. We wanted to tell them that they can just bring their payload and we will plug in. All the paraphernalia is available with us. Students should just focus on the science, experiment, research and innovation,” Sivan had said while announcing the launch of Kalamsat in New Delhi.

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