By François Mignard, research director emeritus CNRS, member of the Bureau des longitudes On April 25, 2018, ESA and the European consortium DPAC delivered the second version of the results produced by Gaia satellite observations. By the diversity of data, their volume and especially the extreme precision of astrometry and photometry, it is an important date in […]
By Marc Noyelle, former deputy CEO of Aeroports de Paris and president of ADPI, Member of AAE. Most "Airports of the Future” (by 2060) will actually be today's 500 largest airports, strongly adapted to support growth (tripling of the number of passengers) and to offer better services. Fewer than 100 new airports will be built, mainly […]
by Jean-Loup Bertaux, Director of Research emeritus at the CNRS at the Laboratoire LATMOS, associated with the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, member of the Academy of Air and space. Are we alone in the universe ? This question was until now in the realm of speculation and science fiction. With the revolution of exoplanets, she […]
Lecture presented by Françoise COMBES, French Académie des Sciences, Bureau des longitudes, College de France, Observatoire de Paris The problem of missing mass in the universe, on a scale of galaxies, of large structures, and especially of overall content, is a multi-faceted enigma. Since 1985, we know that this matter is non-baryonic and does not […]
The principle This training course is organised around thematic encounters spread over 4 half-days. The participant chooses: 4 half-day encounters from the 14 areas of discussion and 56 interviews proposed and builds their "customised" training course over 2 days. Each encounter brings together up to 30 people. One or more recognised experts present the topic […]
By Flight Captain Hans Rahmann, Director Mayday Foundation, former Lufthansa pilot Results of the Task Force after the GermanWings Accident in 2015 led to new EASA Regulations. These have to be implemented by August 2020. One of their main focusses is based on Peer Support Programmes (PSP). EPPSI, being part of the advisory body, supported […]
By Jean-Pierre Dubreuil, former Secretary General of the Eurocopter Group, Member of AAE Rotary wing aircraft have some specific properties that make them suitable, even essential, for a wide range of missions. However, they are hampered by certain aspects mainly linked to the aircraft itself which researchers are endeavouring to correct. his lecture describes the […]
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 around the moon (10 probes since SMART-1 in 2003) that will continue with manned missions using capsules (Orion or Dragon in the US, China, etc.) and international […]
Lecture by Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of both the Mars Society and Pioneer Astronautics, author. This lecture investigates means for achieving human expeditions to Mars utilizing existing or near-term technology. The mission plan described here, Mars Direct is accomplished with tandem direct launches of payloads to Mars using the upper stages of the heavy lift […]
"From the manufacture of the first launchers to the development of space activities" Launch lecture organised by Paul Andrieu of the AACE. With Laurent Thierry, doctor in history, historian at La Coupole (Centre of history and memory in Nord Pas de Calais) Claude Favre, granddaughter of a deportee from Toulouse, and author of the biographies […]
It was in France, in 1907, that the earliest attempts to fly "helicopter" type aircraft took place. It would then take nearly 30 years of research and testing to ensure that this complicated concept reached industrial stage, and 20 years more for the precursors of a future European helicopter industry to emerge. Today, rotary wing […]
by Gal. Bernard Molard, former defence and security adviser to the President of EADS Astrium, AAE member This lecture will be presented in cooperation with the AQUI-IHEDN. Navigating in the desert, firing a bomb at a target, or communicating in the open sea... In a few years satellites have become indispensable to the smooth operation […]