Kalam SAT: World's Smallest Satellite

By Kajal Vats|Updated : June 23rd, 2020

A traditional satellite can weigh as much as few tonnes (G-SAT India’s heaviest weighted satellite of 6000 kg). But an invention which is truly a miracle known as Kalam-SAT which is named after Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. With the launch of the Kalam-SAT, India has created a global space record. It was made in six days and its cost is around 12 lakhs. A 64-gram earlier version of the Kalamsat nicknamed "Gulab jamun" because of its puny size was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2017. But it never reached orbit.

Characteristic of Kalam-SAT

  • Kalam-SAT, made using reinforced carbon fibre polymer.
  • It is a Femto Satellite (The term "Femto satellite" or "femtosat" is usually applied to artificial satellites with a wet mass below 100 g).
Features of Kalam-SAT

Nation

 India

Type/Application

 Technology

Operator

ISRO

Contractor

Space Kidz (Payload)

Configuration

Payload on PSLV PS-4

Power

Batteries (stage); solar cells (payload)

Mass

1.26 kg (payload only)

Orbit

447 km × 451 km, 98.80°

  • Kalam-sat was launched in the vehicle PSLV-C44 with one other satellite named as Microsat-R.  

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About the Developer

  • It is developed by Rifath Sharook(chief technical officer of space education company Space Kidz India and lead scientist for the KalamSat mission) an 18-year-old student from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • He has made a not only India’s but world’s lightest satellite weighing only 64 g.
  • Sharook is the first Indian student to have his experiment launched by NASA.

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