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Detailed explanation-1: -The satellite was a tiny, 64 gram device named KalamSat, after the late President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, and was designed and built by an 18-year-old student and his friends. Rifath Farook, hailing from Tamil Nadu’s Pallapatti, designed and built the tiny satellite by 3D printing the parts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aryabhata, first unmanned Earth satellite built by India. It was named for a prominent Indian astronomer and mathematician of the 5th century ce. The satellite was assembled at Peenya, near Bangalore, but was launched from within the Soviet Union by a Russian-made rocket on April 19, 1975.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tiny satellite, named after Abdul Kalam, was flown by a Nasa sounding rocket and the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island facility around 3pm (IST). Kalamsat was the only Indian payload in the mission.

Detailed explanation-4: -Onkar Batra, a 12th-standard student from Jammu launched his nano-satellite this month with the help of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Batra, a student at BSF Senior Secondary School Jammu has developed India’s first open-source satellite ‘InQube’.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam (370 km southwest of the small town of Baikonur) in Kazakhstan, then part of the former Soviet Union.