INSPIRE-Sat7, a French nano-satellite designed to observe the Earth and the Sun.

INSPIRE-Sat7 is a scientific and technological pathfinder CubeSat mainly developed to measure the Earth’s Energy (or Radiation) Budget at the Top-Of-the-Atmosphere and to probe the ionosphere. INSPIRE-Sat7 is a continuation of the UltraViolet and infrared Sensors at high Quantum efficiency onboard a small SATellite (UVSQ-Sat) programme. Together, they form a heterogeneous constellation of satellites.

UVSQ-Sat was successfully launched on 24 January 2021.

INSPIRE-Sat7 was successfully launched on 15 April 2023.

INSPIRE-Sat7 is a nanosatellite development based on the two Unit (2U) CubeSat standard.

The mission contains a space segment and a ground segment. The Ground Station is located at Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France).

The ground segment includes all the activities from CubeSat monitoring & control to data product generation & distribution.

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This research was mainly funded by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), UVSQ (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France), Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA, France), Développement économique-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (78, France), and Département des Yvelines (78, France).

To conduct the INSPIRE-Sat7 mission on the best way, the ham radio community is involved in many major project activities.

To formalize this partnership, an agreement protocol has been signed on 1st October 2019 between LATMOS, F6KRK, and AMSAT-Francophone.

The Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Radio-Club (F6KRK) works jointly with the LATMOS on the project ground station preparation and commissioning.

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