{"id":2757,"date":"2018-08-04T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T07:02:05","slug":"nasa-launch-worlds-lightest-satellite-month-made-chennai-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/playschool\/nasa-launch-worlds-lightest-satellite-month-made-chennai-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA TO LAUNCH WORLD’S LIGHTEST SATELLITE THIS MONTH, MADE BY CHENNAI STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is<\/strong> designed to study 20 different weather parameters and microgravity’s effect on its nylon body.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four engineering students from Chennai have built the world\u2019s lightest satellite, due to launch from a NASA facility\u00a0in the US\u00a0later this month.<\/p>\n

If successful, the experiment may help in a better understanding and research about the environment of outer space.<\/p>\n

A brainchild of the\u00a0four-man team of\u00a0engineering students from Hindustan Institute of Technology\u00a0& Science, Chennai, it isn’t just\u00a0tiny in size\u00a0(at 4 cm wide) but\u00a0cost them as little as Rs 15,000 to build.<\/p>\n

They’re calling it \u2018Jaihind-1S\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"Jaihind-1S<\/p>\n

Jaihind-1S \u2014 what might be the lightest satellite ever built \u2014 is just 4 cms wide, and weights a mere 33 grams. Image Courtesy: Hindustan University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Encased in a\u00a03D-printed polylactic acid (PLA) exterior, it weighs as much as a\u00a0chicken’s egg might \u2014 33\u00a0grams and was\u00a0designed\u00a0as a contestant in the\u00a0\u2018Cubes in Space\u2019 competition organized annually by the NASA’s Colorado Space Grant consortium and partner organization,\u00a0iDoodle learning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cubes in Space is a global competition encouraging students 11\u00a0to 18 years of age to design an experiment, and have\u00a0it launched into space on one of\u00a0NASA’s rockets at no cost.<\/p>\n

Due to the nature of\u00a0its experiments,\u00a0Jaihind-1S will be\u00a0carried up by a balloon instead, to an altitude of 70 km.<\/p>\n

\"'Jaihind-1S'<\/p>\n

‘Jaihind-1S’ was developed by KJ Harikrishnan, P Amarnath, G Sudhi and T Giri Prasad, who are first-year engineering students from the Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Tamil Nadu. Image Courtesy: Hindustan University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Once it reaches\u00a0its desired altitude, it will disengage from the balloon, and measure a host of different\u00a0things in the atmosphere during\u00a0its\u00a0gradual fall over 15-20 hours.\u00a0It\u00a0was designed\u00a0to study 20 different weather parameters, collect data\u00a0of four of these parameters per\u00a0second, and store this data\u00a0on a built-in SD card.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0satellite is also geared\u00a0up to test how it’s nylon casing shapes up in microgravity, and will keep tabs on its trajectory as it flies.<\/p>\n

Around this time last year,\u00a0a similar record-holding satellite\u00a0was developed for its\u00a0lightweight design \u2014 also in Tamil Nadu \u2014 for the same competition.\u00a0Coined\u00a0‘Kalam SAT’ after the former president A P J Abdul Kalam, it\u00a0was a tad heftier than the new\u00a0‘lightest satellite ever made’, weighing 64 grams, and was wildly successful in its 12-minute mission to study the effect of microgravity on its carbon-fibre body.<\/p>\n

With inputs from ANI, Hindustan University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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