The European Union : a key player in Space

By Paul Weissenberg Adviser for Outer Space Affairs to the EU’s External Action service, AAE member Lecture given on 2 July 2019 in Brussels The European Union has become a Key factor in Space, a key factor to do what? More of the same? Or slightly different?...

Towards a renewal of supersonic transport?

Slide of the lecture done on 9 october 2019 at the Académie Royale de Belgique – Brussels. By Mr Gérard THERON, former head of the Airbus Propulsion competence centre, AAE member Summary: At a time when supersonic aircraft projects, mainly business aircraft, are...

From the origin of the Universe to the origin of life

Lecture on 24 September 2019 at the José Cabanis Media Library in Toulouse presented by Sylvie Vauclair, professor emeritus at the University of Toulouse, honorary member of the University Institute of France, astrophysicist at the Institute for Research in...

Our journey to the lunar continent

Lecture at Médiathèque José Cabanis in Toulouse on 30 april 2019. Pr. Bernard Foing, astrophysicist ESA ESTEC, director ILEWG International Lunar Group, IAA member, professor at the VU Amsterdam, ISU, ISAE The international community has launched an orbital flotilla...

Airport of the future

Presentation of the Lecture of 12 March 2019 at the Royal Academy of Belgium-Brussels. By Marc Noyelle, former deputy CEO of Aéroports de Paris and president of ADPi, AAE member Abstract: Most “Airports of the Future” (by 2060) will actually be today’s 500...

100 years of wind tunnels since Eiffel

By Bruno CHANETZ, senior research scientist, ONERA At the dawn of the twentieth century, wind tunnels gradually became a must, allowing, in Gustave Eiffel’s words, the transition “from the flair of the builder to the art of the engineer”. Wind...

Gaia mission: The keys to the Milky Way

Lecture at the José Cabanis Media Library of Toulouse on 26 February 2019. by François Mignard,astronomer, director of research at CNRS. Summary: On 25 April 2018, ESA and the European Consortium DPAC delivered the second version of the results produced by the...

Artificial intelligence, the present and the possible future

By Claude ROCHE, former director of programme at the DGA, former vice-president major systems of Matra Défense Espace, vice-president of the Air and Space Academy – Lecture given in French on Tuesday 29 January-Grand Auditorium of the library José Cabanis...

The Cassini-Huygens adventure and its discoveries

Recording of the lecture given by Michel Blanc, astronomer, IRAP/Midi-Pyrénées Observatory, UPS-CNRS; Executive director, International Space Science Institute in Beijing, member of AAE, and Jean-Pierre Lebreton, former head of the Huygens mission at ESA, associate...