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An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world's lightest satellite, which will be put into orbit at a Nasa[sic] facility in the US in June.
Rifath Shaarook's 64-gram (0.14 lb) device was selected as the winner in a competition co-sponsored by Nasa[sic]. The 18-year-old says its main purpose was to demonstrate the performance of 3-D printed carbon fibre.
Rifath told local media his invention will go on a four-hour mission for a sub-orbital flight. During that time, the lightweight satellite will operate for around 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space.
"We designed it completely from scratch," he said. "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."
We need more competitions like this that encourage young people in science, and we need the media to make a bigger deal about it.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)
Built to look like a bomb.. The experiment is to get it past security
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:28AM
"Yes I invented a method of quantum clock offloading which makes ntp synchronization obsolete because the clock is never wrong."
"But you're white."
"I don't see how that's relevant."
"But ... you're ... white."