The world’s lightest satellite, made by Indian students, was successfully placed in orbit by a rocket launched by the ISRO. ISRO’s PSLV C-44 mission was special as the launch vehicle carried Microsat-R and Kalamsat-V2. The satellite designed and built by students from Space Kidz India in Chennai. The satellite is named after the former president APJ Abdul Kalam. The lightest satellite weighs only 1.26 Kg and took 6 years to build it. Kalamsat is the first satellite to use rocket’s fourth stage as an orbital platform. . Kalamsat-V2 is meant to study the communication system of Nano-satellite, mainly useful in Disaster Management field. Microsat-R satellite was launched for Defence Research and Development Organisation purposes. However, Kalamsat-V2 launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikotta marks milestone in the history of ISRO.In 2017 NASA launched an earlier version of Kalamsat which weighed only 64 grams, but it never reached orbit
