UVSQ-SAT, a pathfinder cubesat mission for observing essential climate variables

• Main Authors: Meftah, Mustapha, Damé, Luc, Keckhut, Philippe, Bekki, Slimane, Sarkissian, Alain, Hauchecorne, Alain, Bertran, Emmanuel, Carta, Jean-Paul, Rogers, David, Abbaki, Sadok, Dufour, Christophe, Gilbert, Pierre, Lapauw, Laurent, Vieau, André-Jean, Arrateig, Xavier, Muscat, Nicolas, Bove, Philippe, Sandana, Éric, Teherani, Ferechteh, Li, Tong, Pradel, Gilbert, Mahé, Michel, Mercier, Christophe, Paskeviciute, Agne, Segura, Kevin, Alba, Alicia Berciano, Aboulila, Ahmed, Chang, Loren, Chandran, Amal, Dahoo, Pierre-Richard, Bui, Alain
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Earth’s Radiation Budget; Solar–terrestrial Relations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146243
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The UltraViolet and infrared Sensors at high Quantum efficiency onboard a small SATellite (UVSQ-SAT) mission aims to demonstrate pioneering technologies for broadband measurement of the Earth’s radiation budget (ERB) and solar spectral irradiance (SSI) in the Herzberg continuum (200–242 nm) using hi...