ROBUSTA-1B

ROBUSTA
Mission type Technology
Operator Centre Spatial Universitaire Montpellier-Nîmes
Mission duration 2 years
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type 1U CubeSat
Launch mass 1 kilogram (2.2 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date December 2015
Rocket Falcon 9
Contractor SpaceX
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth

ROBUSTA-1B (Radiation on Bipolar Test for University Satellite Application) is a nano-satellite (Cubesat) scientific experiment developed by the University of Montpellier students, a successor to the ROBUSTA satellite, which was launched in February 2012 and lost soon after.[1]

ROBUSTA-1B will carry an updated version of the ROBUSTA payload, an experiment to check the deterioration of electronic components, based on bipolar transistors, when exposed to in-flight space radiation. The results of the experiment will be used to validate a new radiation test method proposed by the laboratory.[2]

ROBUSTA Comparison

Started as a simple reflight of ROBUSTA,[3] the project quickly became a complete upgrade of most of the satellite's systems, using the feedback provided by the previous project.

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