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Experiments on board. Earlier, the 18 year old creator of the satellite, rifath sharook, spoke to the bbc along with his mentor, dr shreematee kaysun. My team designed Copper Fibre Polymorph Structure for the cube satellite. It is a Technology Demonstrate a satellite, which means before going to orbital flight, it will do a suborbital flight. So, in this mission, we are already using 3 d printing technologies. The main difficulty is we need to measure the rasiation the satellite is exposed to, for which we need to design a counter which is inside the small cube. So it is a big challenge for us, how we design a small counter that will also work fine in this mission. Going to mars has become a real craze for children. And it has opened all the avenues by launching about 104 satellites. Children have started becoming more creative and innovative and pro ....