Mission type Technology Launch date December 2015 Launch mass 1,000 g | Mission duration 2 years Contractor SpaceX Launch mass 1,000 g Rocket Falcon 9 | |
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Operator Centre Spatial Universitaire Montpellier-Nîmes Similar BeeSat‑1, FORMOSAT‑5, ESTCube‑1 | ||
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.
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.
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Started as a simple reflight of ROBUSTA, the project quickly became a complete upgrade of most of the satellite's systems, using the feedback provided by the previous project.