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64 GRAM SATELLITE CREATED BY 18 YEAR OLD GENIUS

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Recently NASA launched the world's smallest satellite and lite too . It was named as kalam satellite by the 18 year old Rifath sharook who created this along with his team . Rifath was very young and smart boy from south indian state called Tamilnadu . It was launched from Wallops island of NASA around 3: 00 pm IST . Rifath says that his team analyze and compared all satellites around the world , this is the litest ever developed .  The satellite is just fits into a 4 cm cube  It was made by reinforced carbon fiber polymer  Weigh less than a smartphone This project is the first 3D printed stellite made by Rifath sharook and his team members. kalam sat got selected through a competition made jointly by NASA and I Doodle learning .

PSLV C-38/Cartosat Series 2 Satellite

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Indian space research organisation ( ISRO ) is being located in India , trying to overtake NASA by the upcoming years . So, far ISRO doing an unbelivable records and acheivements in the recent days . Yet ,they had done an another remarkable acheivement by sending 31 satellites using PSLV C-38 . ISRO already having a record launch of 104 satellites into the orbit at an single launch . On june 23 2017 , India's polar satellite launching vehicle made it's 40 flight using PSLV C-38 . It contains a cartosat 2 series weighed 712 kg , 30 co passenger satellites weighed of 243 kg ,out of them 29 are nano satellites .The satellites are positioned in the space around 505 km from the earths orbit . The total satellites carried by PSLV C-38 is 955 kg . The launch was done from Satish Dawan Space Centre, Sriharikota , Andhra pradesh , India . The 30 co passengers satellites are from other countries such as Lithuania, Lativia, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Czech republic, Austria,...

MANGALYAAN 1000 DAYS COMPLETED

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Mangalyaan was an satellite sent by Indian space research organisation ( ISRO ) and active since 2014. It was sent to Mars for collecting deatils about mars and it's planet nature. At the starting it was belived to be inactive around 6 months . Surprisingly Mangalyaan ,still running on Mars surface . Mangalyaan completed it's 1000 days at Mars on 19/06/2017. ISRO estimates that Mangalyaan lifetime is 365 days more at mars . India sent this rover at a cost of $ 39 million . No, country has NEVER ever sent rovers to mars at this much of low cost 

GSLV MK-3 2017

GSLV MK-3 is an three stage heavy launch vehicle developed by indian space research organisation ( ISRO ) . GSLV has two solid straps , a core liquid booster and a cryogenic upper stage . MK-3 is designed to carry 4 tons of satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO ) and ten tons of low earth orbit ( LEO ) . It is twice the amount of GSLV MK-2 .   The first heavy lift vehicle MK-3 of ISRO named as " Fat boy ' . This is considered as india's most powerful heavy vehicle so far . Now, ISRO is planning to increase the capacity oof GSLV MK-3 from 4 tons to 10 tons , by acheiving this ISRO can send haumans into space in the upcoming years . Vehicle Specifications : Height : 43.43 m Vehicle diameter: 5.0 m Heat sheild : 4.0 m  Number of stages : 3  Lift of mass : 640 tons  Payload to GTO : 4000 kg  Payload to LEO : 8000 kg  Launch date : 5 june 2017  Launch location : Satish dawan space centre, Sriharikota,  India ...