Indian teen set to break the guiness book of records;built the lightest satellite ever. NASA launching it in June
18-year-old, Rifath Shaarook is no typical teen. While most boys his age are busy on the internet ‘googling’ stuff like ‘how to get a girlfriend’ alongside some nasty things in their browser history. Shaarook is busy doing ‘adult’ stuff, and not the x-rated kind. He is busy doing genius stuff, and now, he has possibly broken the Guinness Book of Records for having developed the lightest satellite in history. The Indian teen has developed a satellite weighing just 64 grams (0.14 lb), and NASA is set to launch it into space come June this year. Shaarook became the winner in a youth design competition, and his satellite is set to go on a four-hour mission for a suborbital flight. During that flight, this lightweight satellite will operate for about 12 minutes within a microgravity environment in space. Shaarook says his primary goal was to demonstrate the performance and limits of 3D printed carbon fiber. “ We designed it completely from scratch. It will have ...