Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061: A Long-Term Perspective for Planetary Exploration synthesizes all the material elaborated and discussed during three workshops devoted to the Horizon 2061 foresight exercise. Sections cover the science of planetary systems, space...
The scientific and technological landscape is taking shape, for Mankind to expand dramatically the environment the terrestrial biosphere interacts with, inside and beyond the solar system boundaries. Indeed, when NASA Starlight draws a path to propel miniature...
Useless to say longer that water supports life development when thermal and pressure conditions allow it is in liquid state. Soon in the space exploration scientific missions have focused on looking for water presence in celestial bodies. Space explorer missions and...
This theme will explore ideas for accelerating mission development with emphasis on the operations phase. We will review the propulsion technologies currently available to reach any destination targets in the Solar System beyond Earth, and those under...
Solar system bodies with a significant atmosphere have been explored with balloons (Venus) and parachuted probes (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Titan). The NASA/JPL Ingenuity helicopter, deployed in 2021 on Mars, is the first “flying machine” that successfully operated (and...
Space exploration missions have always involved humans and robots, since the very beginning of the space age. So far, the majority of these missions has been carried out with robots, indeed the totality of those going beyond the Moon. For decades, much debate went...
This theme will be managed by SGAC with the support of AAE: the purpose is to involve mainly young people, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and projects for original missions, for instance, deploying a swarm of interconnected drones in Titan’s atmosphere, or even...
The acceleration of the US-led ARTEMIS programme and (probably intention of China or India) for establishing a permanent habitat on the Moon (lunar gateway, lunar ground base…), generates many initiatives accompanying this mission ( launch of lunar microsats, launch...
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?...
Successes of the Ariane 5 launcher On 17 November 2016, Ariane 5 launched 4 Galileo satellites, successfully completing its 75th consecutive launch since April 2003. In doing so, Ariane 5 beat the record previously held by Ariane 4. Since then, the series has...
The recipients Stéphane Abed Founder and president of POLY-SHAPE, for the success of this 3D printing company. General Jean-Paul SALINI Pilot and author, for his work entitled “Derniers Virages”.
It is attributed to the ChemCam team for the excellence of the measurements carried out over 4 years on Mars thanks to this instrument onboard the Rover Curiosity: Launched on 26 November 2011, Curiosity was placed on the site of the Gale crater; 80 kg of onboard...
