Development and Testing of AEROSAT: A CNES Nanolab Academy Student Project
Dr. Meryam Lassri,
EMINES School of Industrial Management at Mohamed VI Polytechnic University
IAP Physics Seminar Series will occur on Tuesday 16 July, at 15:15 at the UM6P campus (Ryad 8, 1st floor).
AEROSAT is a nanosatellite project developed by students at CNES under the Nanolab Academy program. The mission aims to demonstrate the orbital functionality of various payloads from CNES’s R&D programs, including aerosol sensors, radiation counters, dosimeters, and contamination sensors. Currently in the detailed definition phase, the student team is finalizing system definitions for the nanosatellite, payloads, and ground segment, as well as preliminary definitions for key subsystems such as power chains, onboard processing, AOCS, flight software, control center, mission center, and ground station. Responsibilities also include defining preliminary interfaces between system components and subsystems, and developing and validating the initial nanosatellite models (STM, EM). My role encompassed mastering the satellite’s electrical architecture, conducting functional tests of the power board and passivation module, and consolidating energy balances. This work involved close collaboration with fellow students working on other system components (satellite, platform, control center) and CNES experts in various space-related fields (avionics, system engineering, control center operations).
Meryam Lassri‘s academic background includes preparatory classes in Mathematics and Physics (MP) at Mohamed V High School in Casablanca. She then pursued her engineering studies at ENSEM (National School of Electricity and Mechanics) in Casablanca. Later, she completed her preparation for the agrégation in Physics and Chemistry, with a specialization in Physics, at the EMINES School of Industrial Management, followed by a PhD in Physics at the FSTBM (Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Beni Mellal) of Sultan Moulay Slimane University.
She holds a PhD in Physics with a specialization in Energy Engineering and is a Professor in Physics and Chemistry, with a focus on Physics. Additionally, she is an Electrical Engineer. She is affiliated with the EMINES School of Industrial Management at Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), where she supervises CPI students in experimental physics.
Her research work primarily focuses on the physics of materials, specializing in the structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric study of certain phosphate-based and rare-earth materials for cryogenic applications.
She is also part of the UM6P-SaT project, which aims to build a CubeSat1U. This project benefits from the expertise of the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), where she completed a training internship.
Localization: Ryad 8, 1st Floor.