By Marc Hamy, President Corporate Affairs, Airbus, fellow of the AAE Aviation is not only an extremely fast, safe and efficient means of transport. This is what makes it possible to connect all the countries of the world in less than 24 hours, to dispersed families to reunite, to economies to develop and open up […]

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 the "survival" mode that our ancestors knew... Agriculture, medicine, housing, transport, industry, leisure, free time... The unthinkable is there, accessible to many if not […]

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 (VTOL) projects are emerging and target the urban air taxi and urban aeromobility (UAM= Urban Air Mobility) markets. They give hope that everyone will soon be able to move around […]

By Gil Denis , Head of Technology Development, Airbus Defence and Space and Alix Roumagnac , President, Predict Services Climate change increases people's exposure to risks in general and hydrometeorological risks in particular. Since the beginning of the space age, satellites have played an important role in managing risks and major disasters. The two speakers […]

By Xavier Bouis, Chairman of the Energy and Environment Commission of the Air and Space Academy (C2E) Since 1800, fossil fuels and their use in machines have gradually liberated us from the "survival" mode of our ancestors... Agriculture, medicine, housing, transport, industry, leisure, free time... The unimaginable is here, accessible to many if not all! […]

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 less to cost less, especially since for 50 years oil has been more and more expensive. Technological developments are often staged. For barely ten years these innovations have been linked and […]

By Cyril CAVEL , JUICE Project Manager, Airbus Defence and Space and Olivier WITASSE, JUICE Project Scientist, European Space Agency JUICE, a major project of the European Space Agency, is a satellite built by Airbus Defense & Space that is scheduled to take off in 2023 and join Jupiter in 2031. The mission aims to […]

By Vincent Costes, head of GEIPAN at CNES with the participation of Francine Cordier, GEIPAN investigator GEIPAN studies aerospace observations, unexplained phenomena observed in the sky, that have been reported to it since 1977 (46 years). This is one of the many missions of the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). It's a very original mission. […]

By Sylvie Vauclair, astrophysicist, professor emeritus, member of the AAE Since the dawn of humanity, human beings have sought to understand the world in which they live and to situate themselves in relation to it. Science and technology have led to spectacular advances that have challenged old ideas and changed humanity's self-image of the cosmos. […]

By Georges Ville, 60 years with Airbus, former President of the AAE Airbus Industrie became interested in the single-aisle market in 1981 and in 1984 launched the A320 family equipped with CFM56 engines with the support of Air France. Technological innovations and visionary choices in the definition of the aircraft are helping to anticipate its […]

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 not spared the Guiana Space Center. The current model, in which Arianespace is the sole user of the space base, has fizzled out and the CSG, like an airport hosting several […]