World's Lightest Satellite 3D Printed on a FabX 3D Printer

India’s 3D Printer FabX 3D Prints the World’s Lightest Satellite

On 24 August 2018, the world’s lightest satellite 3D Printed on a FabX 3D Printer will be launched by NASA. The launch is a part of the Cubes in Space contest organized by NASA and Idoodle Learning. The satellite weighs only 33.39 grams and is a creation of a young 4 member undergraduate team from Hindustan Institute of Technology and Sciences, Chennai. The lightest satellite previously was 3D Printed in Carbon Fiber and weighed about 64 grams and had a life of about 12 minutes in Micro gravity. So to reduce to weight even further, the team was on a …

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