SERB, a nano-satellite dedicated to the Earth-Sun relationship

Mustapha Meftah; Étienne Bamas; Pierre Cambournac; Philippe Cherabier; Romain Demarets; Gaspard Denis; Axel Dion; Raphaël Duroselle; Florence Duveiller; Laetitia Eichner; Dimitri Lozeve; Guillaume Mestdagh; Antoine Ogier; Romane Oliverio; Thibault Receveur; Camille Souchet; Pierre Gilbert; Germain Poiet; Alain Hauchecorne; Philippe Keckhut; Alain Sarkissian

doi:10.1117/12.2222660

13 May 2016 SERB, a nano-satellite dedicated to the Earth-Sun relationship

Mustapha Meftah, Étienne Bamas, Pierre Cambournac, Philippe Cherabier, Romain Demarets, Gaspard Denis, Axel Dion, Raphaël Duroselle, Florence Duveiller, Laetitia Eichner, Dimitri Lozeve, Guillaume Mestdagh, Antoine Ogier, Romane Oliverio, Thibault Receveur, Camille Souchet, Pierre Gilbert, Germain Poiet, Alain Hauchecorne, Philippe Keckhut, Alain Sarkissian

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Proceedings Volume 9838, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX; 98380T (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2222660
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

The Solar irradiance and Earth Radiation Budget (SERB) mission is an innovative proof-of-concept nano-satellite, with three ambitious scientiﬁc objectives. The nano-satellite aims at measuring on the same platform the absolute value of the total solar irradiance (TSI) and its variability, the ultraviolet (UV) solar spectral variability, and the diﬀerent components of the Earth radiation budget. SERB is a joint project between CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), Ecole polytechnique, and LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmospheres, Milieux, Observations Spatiales) scheduled for a launch in 2020–2021. It is a three-unit CubeSat (X-CubeSat II), developed by students from ´Ecole polytechnique. Critical components of instrumental payloads of future large missions (coatings, UV ﬁlters, etc.) can acquire the technical maturity by ﬂying in a CubeSat. Nano-satellites also represent an excellent alternative for instrumentation testing, allowing for longer ﬂights than rockets. More-over, speciﬁc scientiﬁc experiments can be performed by nano-satellites. This paper is intended to present the SERB mission and its scientiﬁc objectives.

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Mustapha Meftah, Étienne Bamas, Pierre Cambournac, Philippe Cherabier, Romain Demarets, Gaspard Denis, Axel Dion, Raphaël Duroselle, Florence Duveiller, Laetitia Eichner, Dimitri Lozeve, Guillaume Mestdagh, Antoine Ogier, Romane Oliverio, Thibault Receveur, Camille Souchet, Pierre Gilbert, Germain Poiet, Alain Hauchecorne, Philippe Keckhut, and Alain Sarkissian "SERB, a nano-satellite dedicated to the Earth-Sun relationship", Proc. SPIE 9838, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX, 98380T (13 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2222660

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