20 Years of the ROBUSTA Adventure! 🛰️

On this Thursday, September 24, 2026, as part of our 14th Partners’ Club Day, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the start of the ROBUSTA adventure. This university-led initiative, launched in 2006, would lead six years later to the launch of ROBUSTA-1A, France’s first CubeSat.

Today, we look back on this pioneering journey that gave rise to the University of Montpellier Space Center (CSUM)!

Thank you to all our sponsors, without whom none of this would be possible!

Laurent Dusseau, Michel Tognini, Jean-Claude Gayssot, Claudie Haigneré, Michel Courtois, Philippe Augé, Pierre Maurice, Elodie VIAU, Florence Dufrasnes, Xavier Albert-Lebrun, Alexandre Willemont

Isabelle Lagracie, Célia Fernandez-Durand, Émilie Genoudet