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The world’s lightest and smallest satellite, kalamsat, weighing only 0.64gm, which broke an international space record on June 22, will be showcased at IIT Bombay’s Techfest 2017-18 between December 29-31.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today presented a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to Rifath Sharook and his team who had developed 'kalamsat,' a 64 gram micro satellite that was launched by NASA last month.

On Thursday, India once again broke a global space record by launching the world's lightest satellite weighing a mere 64 grams, called kalamsat, designed and developed not by professional space scientists and engineers, but by 18-yearold Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team.

The Indian Space Research Organisation has released a video captured by the cameras onboard PSLV-C44, which lifted off with Microsat R and kalamsat on Thursday night.

The rocket will lift off from the first launch pad in Sriharikota at 11.37pm on Thursday.

PSLV C-44 lifted off with Microsat R, a military application satellite, and kalamsat, a 10cm cubesat made by students, at 11.37pm on Thursday from the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.The launch is PSLV’s 46th flight and the first flight with a new variant of PSLV called PSLV-DL.

kalamsat will be “powered” by the last stage of new variant of PSLV rocket in space to perform experiments soon after its launch from Sriharikota on Jan 24. If the PSLV-C44 rocket launch is successful, Isro will become the first space agency in the world whose rocket will not only be a satellite launcher but will also double up as a platform for space experiments.

If all goes according to plan, the first mission designed by Indian students will lift off for the moon in 2019, said Vinay Bhardwaj and Yagna Sai of Chennai-based Space Kidz India (SKI).

Fans were in for a special treat on Diwali, ahead of the superstar’s birthday.

Isro is going to launch a student satellite, kalamsat. PSLVC44, a new variant of PSLV, will carry kalamsat and an earth imaging satellite, Microsat-R, it will also double up as a platform for space experiment.kalamsat is the world’s lightest and smallest satellite built by a student start-up from Chennai and is named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam.

Students from a Sri Lankan university and SpaceKidz India are collaborating to develop a communication satellite, set to launch by ISRO in late 2025. The project aims to equip students from Jaffna and Tamil Nadu with skills in satellite technology, offering groundbreaking research opportunities and STEM education.

The satellite was selected through a competition called 'Cubes in Space', jointly organised by Nasa and 'I Doodle Learning'. This will be the first time an Indian student's experiment - a 64 gm satellite - will be flown by Nasa.

Isro is preparing to launch Mission ShakthiSAT in Sept 2026, featuring 12,000 talented girls from 108 countries. The mission aims to encourage young female participation in space exploration. Selected participants will gather in Chennai to build payloads for scientific experiments. This initiative highlights the potential of untapped talent among young girls worldwide.

The mini communication satellite, weighing just a kg with double the size of a Rubik’s cube, looks to serve the amateur radio community claims and will help in coordinating messages among them and help the country in time of disaster. Built in just 18 months, Exseed Sat-1 will allow people to receive signals on 145.9 Mhz frequency with the help of a TV tuner.

For the first time in the country’s space history, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is going to launch a PSLV mission in March where it will release payloads in three different orbits. On January 24, the PSLV C44 rocket had carried a student satellite ‘kalamsat’ that was attached to PS-4, which students are nowadays using for doing space experiments.

“Launch time depends on the requirement of the satellite. They wanted the satellite to cross south to north of equator around noon, maybe due to sunlight condition. Our launcher goes from north to south of the equator. To meet the requirement, we needed to have a night launch,” said K Sivan, Isro chairman. Microsat-R has been designed for military by DRDO.

The countdown began at 6.27 am on Sunday for the launch on board Indian Space Research Organisation's third generation workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its 47th flight, Isro said. The four-stage PSLV-C45 will blast off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota at 9.27am on Monday, agency officials said.