Stratospheric balloons and their applications

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...

The Guiana Space Centre opens wide the Door to Outer Space

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...

How Airbus overtook Boeing thanks to the success of the A320 Family

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...

GEIPAN studies UAPs/UFOs

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...

Exploring Jupiter and its icy moons: the JUICE mission

Replay of the conference of November 28, 2023 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse (in French) By Cyril CAVEL , JUICE Project Manager, Airbus Defence and Space and Olivier WITASSE, JUICE Project Scientist, European Space Agency JUICE, a major project of...

Decarbonisation of aviation: a race against time

Replay of the conference of October 23, 2023 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse (in french) By Jérémy Caussade, co-founder, president and chief engineer, AURA AERO Aviation naturally tends to want to decarbonize. Simply because his obsession is to spend...

Aviation was born with petrol: now what?

Replay of the lecture on May 30, 2023 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse By Xavier Bouis, President of the Energy and Environment Commission of the Air and Space Academy (C2E) Since 1800, fossil energy and its use in machines have gradually freed us from...

Electric aircraft: the future of urban mobility?

Replay of the lecture (in French language) on June 27, 2023 at the Médiathèque José Cabanis – Toulouse By Alain Cassier, President of the Program Committee of the UAM by e-VTOL conference, fellow of the AAE Many multi-rotor electric vertical take-off and landing...

ARTEMIS programme: A European astronaut soon on the Moon?

Replay of the March 22, 2023 lecture By Jean Blouvac , Head of the Exploration and Human Spaceflight Program, CNES At the November 2022 Ministerial Conference, ESA Member States confirmed their involvement in human exploration and flight through the Terrae Nova...