| ROBUSTA-1B | |
| Mission Type: | Technology |
| Operator: | Centre Spatial Universitaire Montpellier-Nîmes |
| Mission Duration: | 2 years |
| Spacecraft Type: | 1U CubeSat |
| Launch Mass: | 1kg (02lb) |
| Launch Date: | 23 June 2017[1] |
| Launch Rocket: | PSLV |
| Launch Contractor: | ISRO |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit 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.[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]