Reception speech by Jean-Jacques SPEYER

Jean-Jacques SPEYER has the status of correspondent of the Academy since 2016. He was elected as Fellow on June 21, 2019. He is a member of Section 5. His reception speech entitled “La Part du Rêve d’Icare” took place during the Session of February...

Reception speech by Andrew KNAPP

Andrew KNAPP has the status of correspondent of the Academy since 2016. He was elected as Fellow on June 18, 2021. He is a member of Section 5. His acceptance speech entitled “Bombardements aériens et mémoire, entre histoire et politique” took place during...

The space propulsion of the future

Lecture recording (in French): Mr. Alberto Rossi, Head of Propulsion, Pyrotechnics and Aerothermodynamics Department, CNESat the José Cabanis Media Library in Toulouse on February 22, 2022. Space propulsion systems have a great influence on our ability to travel to...

Why keep going into space? L’impératif éthique

Conference by Jacques Arnould, ethical expert, CNES. Sixty years after the launch of the first Sputnik, space has entered the NewSpace era. The arrival of new state actors and private entrepreneurs has upset the balance found after the race to the Moon. The...

Plenary Formal Session 2021

Relive the full solemn sitting of the PPA on 26 November 2021. It takes place partly in Toulouse Métropole and then in the Salle des Illustres of the ToulouseCity Hall. The session began with tributes to the deceased members, the presentation of the new Bureau of the...

The viability of small electric air vehicles

By André Bord, former Chief Engineer A320, Airbus, former Technical Director ATR, member of the AAE The use of electric energy sources deemed “green” for the propulsion of air vehicles seems, for a long time, reserved for small vehicles meeting the needs...

The lightest air is soaring to new horizons

Replay of the conference day of 03/11/2021 at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie with the interventions (in french only): New prospects for airships by Pascal TAILLANDIER, head of captive and airship balloon projects at ONERA Stratospheric balloons for...

Space Explorers

Videoconference (in French) on 26 October 2021 by Michel Tognini,pilot, astronaut, former head of the European Astronaut Center, correspondent of the AAE. Are there adventures that make you dream? That of Space is one of them. Michel Tognini is one of the few French...