Project News

Education

UVSQ SAT is performed partly by UVSQ students from the L3 Pro
of the IUT Mantes la Jolie : Systèmes Intelligents Mécatroniques pour l'Industrie et le Spatial
as well as by many international students from USA, Armenia, etc...

To download SIMIS leaflet (in french), click here.

UVSQ SAT will be the support for formations starting from primary school (collèges in France) up to university level.
The overall objective is to attract young children to our activities.

Our method is to show the real conditions of our working environment, allowing children/students to deal with:
- constraints
- rush hours
- weather
- Time shift when working with international teams
- No week end / holidays for space experiments
etc...

Our leaflet can be downloaded here

UVSQ-SAT_plaquette27052019.pdf

3D printing

Enjoy to print 3D model for hobby or for educational purpose?
You can download an STL file ready to print: Here

It's not a full size of UVSQ-SAT, but it is enough for learning the basics of 3D printing:
- Infill motif and quantity
- Wall thickeness
- Printing speed
- ...

Paper mockup

Have a look to our paper mockup: Here
a) Download the file
b) Print it
c) Cut the mockup border
d) Stick the side panels

Our logo can be dowbloaded here

Publications related to UVSQ-SAT

The first publication about UVSQ-SAT can be downloaded at editor's site : https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/1/92

Meftah, M.; Keckhut, P.; Damé, L.; Bekki, S.; Sarkissian, A.; Hauchecorne, A. Think the way to measure the Earth Radiation Budget and the Total Solar Irradiance with a small satellites constellation. Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XI, 2018, Vol. 10641, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, p. 106410S. doi:10.1117/12.2303616.

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Rogers, D.J.; Bove, P.; Arrateig, X.; Sandana, V.E.; Teherani, F.H.; Razeghi, M.; McClintock, R.; Frisch, E.; Harel, S. The new oxide paradigm for solid state ultraviolet photodetectors. Oxide-based Materials and Devices IX, 2018, Vol. 10533, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, p. 105331P. doi:10.1117/12.2319505.

Blunden, J.; Arndt, D.S. State of the Climate in 2018. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019, 100, Si–S306,
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Loeb, N.G.; Doelling, D.R.; Wang, H.; Su, W.; Nguyen, C.; Corbett, J.G.; Liang, L.; Mitrescu, C.; Rose, F.G.; Kato, S. Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition-4.0 Data Product. Journal of Climate 2018, 31, 895–918, [https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0208.1"].
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Zelinka, M.D.; Randall, D.A.; Webb, M.J.; Klein, S.A. Clearing clouds of uncertainty. Nature Climate Change 2017, 7, 674–678. doi:10.1038/nclimate3402.
Meftah, M.; Damé, L.; Bolsée, D.; Hauchecorne, A.; Pereira, N.; Sluse, D.; Cessateur, G.; Irbah, A.; Bureau, J.; Weber, M.; Bramstedt, K.; Hilbig, T.; Thiéblemont, R.; Marchand , M.; Lefèvre, F.; Sarkissian, A.; Bekki, S. SOLAR-ISS: A new reference spectrum based on SOLAR/SOLSPEC observations. Astron. Astrophys. 2018, 611, A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731316.

Gray, L.J.; Beer, J.; Geller, M.; Haigh, J.D.; Lockwood, M.; Matthes, K.; Cubasch, U.; Fleitmann, D.; Harrison, G.; Hood, L.; Luterbacher, J.; Meehl, G.A.; Shindell, D.; van Geel, B.; White, W. Solar Influences on Climate. Reviews of Geophysics 2010, 48, RG4001. doi:10.1029/2009RG000282.


Adolphi, F.; Muscheler, R.; Svensson, A.; Aldahan, A.; Possnert, G.; Beer, J.; Sjolte, J.; Björck, S.; Matthes, K.; Thiéblemont, R. Persistent link between solar activity and Greenland climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience 2014, 7, 662–666. doi:10.1038/ngeo2225.

Roth, R.; Joos, F. A reconstruction of radiocarbon production and total solar irradiance from the Holocene 14C and CO2 records: implications of data and model uncertainties. Climate of the Past 2013, 9, 1879–1909. doi:10.5194/cp-9-1879-2013.


Steinhilber, F.; Beer, J. Prediction of solar activity for the next 500 years. Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) 2013, 118, 1861–1867. doi:10.1002/jgra.50210.

Arsenovic, P.; Rozanov, E.; Anet, J.; Stenke, A.; Schmutz, W.; Peter, T. Implications of potential future grand solar minimum for ozone layer and climate. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2018, 18, 3469–3483. doi:10.5194/acp-18-3469-2018.


Swartz, W.H.; Stolarski, R.S.; Oman, L.D.; Fleming, E.L.; Jackman, C.H. Middle atmosphere response to different descriptions of the 11-yr solar cycle in spectral irradiance in a chemistry-climate model. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions 2012, 12, 7039–7071. doi:10.5194/acpd-12-7039-2012.

Richard, E.; Harber, D.; Drake, G.; Rutkowsi, J.; Castleman, Z.; Smith, M.; Sprunck, J.; Zheng, W.; Smith, P.; Fisher, M.; Sims, A.; Cervelli, B.; Fowle, M.; Miller, M.; Chambliss, M.; Woods, T.; Pilewskie, P.; Yung, C.; Stephens, M.; Tomlin, N.; White, M.; Lehman, J. Compact spectral irradiance monitor flight demonstration mission. SPIE, 2019, Vol. 11131, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, p. 1113105. doi:10.1117/12.2531268.

Meftah, M.; Dominique, M.; BenMoussa, A.; Dammasch, I.E.; Bolsée, D.; Pereira, N.; Damé, L.; Bekki, S.; Hauchecorne, A. On-orbit degradation of recent space-based solar instruments and understanding of the degradation processes. SPIE, 2017, Vol. 10196, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, p. 1019606. doi:10.1117/12.2250031.

BenMoussa, A.; Gissot, S.; Schühle, U.; Del Zanna, G.; Auchère, F.; Mekaoui, S.; Jones, A.R.; Walton, D.; Eyles, C.J.; Thuillier, G.; Seaton, D.; Dammasch, I.E.; Cessateur, G.; Meftah, M.; Andretta, V.; Berghmans, D.; Bewsher, D.; Bolsée, D.; Bradley, L.; Brown, D.S.; Chamberlin, P.C.; Dewitte, S.; Didkovsky, L.V.; Dominique, M.; Eparvier, F.G.; Foujols, T.; Gillotay, D.; Giordanengo, B.; Halain, J.P.; Hock, R.A.; Jeppesen, C.; Judge, D.L.; Kretzschmar, M.; McMullin, D.R.; Nicula, B.; Schmutz, W.; Ucker, G.; Wieman, S.; Woodraska, D.; Woods, T.N. On-Orbit Degradation of Solar Instruments. Solar Phys. 2013, 288, 389–434, [arXiv:astro-ph.IM/1304.5488]. doi:10.1007/s11207-013-0290-z.

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Bolsée, D.; Pereira, N.; Gillotay, D.; Pandey, P.; Cessateur, G.; Foujols, T.; Bekki, S.; Hauchecorne, A.; Meftah, M.; Damé, L.; Hersé, M.; Michel, A.; Jacobs, C.; Sela, A. SOLAR/SOLSPEC mission on ISS: In-flight performance for SSI measurements in the UV. Astron. Astrophys. 2017, 600, A21. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628234.

Meftah, M.; Bamas, É.; Cambournac, P.; Cherabier, P.; Demarets, R.; Denis, G.; Dion, A.; Duroselle, R.; Duveiller, F.; Eichner, L.; Lozeve, D.; Mestdagh, G.; Ogier, A.; Oliverio, R.; Receveur, T.; Souchet, C.; Gilbert, P.; Poiet, G.; Hauchecorne, A.; Keckhut, P.; Sarkissian, A. SERB, a nano-satellite dedicated to the Earth-Sun relationship. SPIE 9838, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX; (eds), K.D.P.G.C., Ed. SPIE, 2016, Vol. 9838, Proceedings SPIE 9838, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX, p. 98380T. doi:10.1117/12.2222660.

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