ROBUSTA-1B (Radiation on Bipolar Test for University Satellite Application) is a nano-satellite (Cubesat) scientific experiment developed by theUniversity of Montpellier students, a successor to theROBUSTA satellite, which was launched in February 2012 and lost soon after.[2]
ROBUSTA-1B carries 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.[3]
Started as a simple reflight of ROBUSTA,[4] the project quickly became a complete upgrade of most of the satellite's systems, using the feedback provided by the previous project.[5]
^Boch, Jérôme; Gonzalez Velo, Yago; Saigne, Frédéric; Roche, Nicolas J.-H.; Schrimpf, Ronald D.; Vaille, Jean-Roch; Dusseau, Laurent; Chatry, Christian; Lorfevre, Eric; Ecoffet, Robert; Touboul, Antoine D. (2009). "The Use of a Dose-Rate Switching Technique to Characterize Bipolar Devices".IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.56 (6):3347–3353.Bibcode:2009ITNS...56.3347B.doi:10.1109/TNS.2009.2033686.S2CID20001729.
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