Conference presented by Pierre Casenove, project manager for French Euclid contributions, CNES Launched in July 2023, the European space telescope Euclid began probing the Universe in February 2024 for a nominal 6-year mission on board. The first images released in November 2023 and May 2024 demonstrated the telescope's exceptional capabilities. Following the first publication of […]
Lecture by General Jean-Daniel Testé, former Commander, Joint Space Command, French armed forces, member of the Air and Space Academy Space systems are today providing major contributions to our overall Defence and Security architecture. Secure telecommunications, intelligence gathering, positioning and navigation, space situation awareness, weather forecasting, are the main domains where space systems have become […]
By Marc Gatti, Scientific and Academic Relations Director, Thales AVS France, AAE correspondent This presentation introduces the three key pillars of the avionics platform of the future, and presents the associated challenges. The term "avionics platform" used here includes all the on-board systems needed for an aircraft to fly (whatever the aircraft: commercial, fighter, transport, […]
Lecture presented by Philippe Coué, member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) China has been planning to send its citizens into the cosmos since the start of its space program in the 1960s. But it wasn't until the end of the twentieth century and China's economic take-off that this goal became a reality. Today, […]
By José Miguel De la Viuda Sainz, Business Roadmap & Transformation Programs, Airbus Since the appearance of the Boeing 247 in 1933, undoubtedly the first modern passenger aircraft, over two hundred different models of commercial aircraft have been built to date. Some models have been a resounding success, others a mixed success, and still others, […]
Lecture presented by Pierre-Yves Meslin, planetologist at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, scientific leader of the DORN experiment. DORN was the first active French instrument to be deployed on the Moon's surface, in June 2024, aboard the Chinese probe Chang'E 6. Its aim was to measure the concentration of radon released by […]
By Franck Goldnadel, President of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur The greening of aviation is often talked about by manufacturers and airlines, but less so by hospitality structures, which also have serious challenges to face. These include the airport's technical resources, the preparation of refuelling with new fuels, some of which are difficult to transfer, […]
By Alexis Rouillard, CNRS researcher, IRAP and Philippe Louarn, CNRS research director, IRAP Why is the Sun's atmosphere two hundred times hotter than its surface? How are solar winds and thunderstorms created? To answer these big astrophysical questions, the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter space probes set off in 2018 and 2020 to discover […]
With Jean Pinet, former experimental test pilot, doctor in psychology-ergonomics and former president of the AAE; Alain Garcia, former Executive Vice President Engineering at Airbus Commercial Aircraft and former Vice-President of AAE; Jacques Verrière, former Captain, Air France Instructor and Chairman of AAE Section 3. This conference, in the form of a round-table discussion, will […]
By Pierre Léna, astrophysicist and Professor Emeritus, Observatoire de Paris - PSL & Université Paris Cité, member of the Académie des sciences In 1973 over Africa, the Concorde-001 prototype, piloted by André Turcat and flying at Mach 2 in the shadow of the Moon, offered the nine scientists on board the longest totality of a […]
By General (2S) Jean-Daniel Testé, former Joint Space Commander, Vice-Chairman AGENA SPACE, Associate BL Consulting France, member of AAE In an international context that is unstable, highly uncertain and more conflict-ridden than ever, General Jean-Daniel Testé will examine the notion of spatial conflict and its various facets, and offer his vision of the players and […]
By Jean-Pierre Luminet, CNRS Emeritus Research Director, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, corresponding member of AAE A large part of the plot of the famous science-fiction film Interstellar (2014) features several aspects of Einstein's theory and its extensions: wormholes, black holes, distortions of space and time, string theory, unification of physics. In this lecture, which follows […]