All india social activist and ngo association felicitated Kalam Sat team members today at YMCA Chennai with Eminent Personalities Nandakumar IRS Joint Income Tax Commissioner, Dr.Regeena J Murali, Managing Director Jeppiar Group of Instutions and Companies, Mrs.Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Director, APJMJ Sheik Dawood, Grandson of Dr APJ Abdul kalam, Dr.K.Abdul Ghani, Green Man of India and Founder All India Social Activists and NGO’s Association Union. ” Kalam Sat- a Femto category Satellite”. We have researched all theo found our Femto Sat to be the World’s Lightest..
It is a 3.8 cm Cube Satellite (Femto category), weighing 64 grams (including the plastic cube provided by CiS) It’s structure is fully 3D printed with reinforced carbon fiber polymer in which we will be using complext carbon fiber and ABS built with fusion deposition modelling 3D printer.
A temperature and humidity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, which are all connected to an OBC using I2C interface. It also will contain a “Nano Geiger Muller counter”, which will measure the radiation in outer space.
Kalam Sat, is named after former president and Rocket Scientist of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. This is to encourage the student community into space research and explore more avenues in an economical manner. We are extremely excited and looking forward for the launch…
The Space Kidz India team is lead by
Mr. Rifath Sharook – Lead Scientist
Mr. Yagna Sai – Technical Lead
Mr. Vinay Bharadwaj – Structural Engineer
Mr. Tanishq Dwivedi – Flight Engineer
Mr. Gobinath. – Biologist
Mr. Mohammed Kaasif – Test Engineer.This apart, we have worked on a CUBE SAT, that is going to be launched again from the United States in a reusuable rocket.