Lecture by Marc Baumgartner, room manager and air traffic controller at SKYGUIDE, member of the AAE, on February 25, 2025 at the José Cabanis media library in Toulouse. The impact of COVID on aviation was abysmal. Air traffic was at an all-time low. By 2024, air...
White trails are sometimes seen in the wake of aircraft. In some cases, these can turn into cirrus clouds which, depending on their persistence in the atmosphere, can alter the planet’s radiation balance and possibly contribute to global warming. While certain...
Replay of the conference held on November 26, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse. (in french) By Prof. Guy André Boy, FlexTech Chair, ESTIA & CentraleSupélec (Paris Saclay University), AAE member We now live in a digital and virtual world in which we...
Replay (in French) of the November 20, 2024 conference at the Palais de la découverte, Paris Hybrid electric aviation offers a new mode of regional transport for multiple applications: passenger transport, medical evacuation cargo, organ transport… Hybridization...
Replay of the conference held on October 29, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse. By Michel Blanc, Professor Emeritus, IRAP, University of Toulouse, Chair of the COSPAR “Panel on Exploration”, fellow of the AAE Lunar exploration is the first...
Replay of the conference held on September 24, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis, Toulouse. By Alexis Rouillard, CNRS researcher, IRAP Why is the Sun’s atmosphere two hundred times hotter than its surface? How are solar winds and thunderstorms created? To...
Replay of the June 28, 2024 conference at the Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space. It follows in the footsteps of the Hubble Space Telescope by forming the next...
Replay of the lecture of May 28, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse (in french) By Vincent Dubourg, Deputy Director of Balloons at CNES, Orbital Systems and Applications Division For 60 years, CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) has been...
Replay of the lecture (in French) of April 23, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse By Marie-Anne Clair, former director of the Guiana Space Centre, CNES, AAE correspondent The powerful blast that is disrupting the space transportation ecosystem has...
Replay of the conference held on March 26, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse (in French) By Georges Ville, 60 years with Airbus, former president of AAE In 1981, Airbus Industrie turned its attention to the single-aisle market, and in 1984, with...
Replay of the lecture (in French) on February 27, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse By Sylvie Vauclair, astrophysicist, professor emeritus, member of the AAE Since the dawn of humanity, human beings have sought to understand the world in which they...
Replay of the conference on January 31, 2024 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse By Vincent Costes, head of GEIPAN at CNES with the participation of Francine Cordier, GEIPAN investigator GEIPAN studies aerospace observations, unexplained phenomena...