• SWOT, monitoring water resources, oceans and climate

    As part of the 2024 "Rendez-vous Espace" conference cycle organised by the Friends of the Cité de l'espace in partnership with the Cité de l'espace, the Académie de l'air et de l'espace and the 3AF. Lecture presented by Delphine Leroux, head of the Hydrology, Cryosphere and Water Cycle programs at CNES and Rosemary Morrow, oceanographer […]

  • SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuels): potential and limitations of a key solution for the decarbonisation of aviation

    By Nicolas Jeuland, Emeritus Expert on the Environmental Impact of Aviation and Future Fuels, Safran, AAE correspondent (lecture in french) The aviation industry is committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve this, the aviation industry is working on 3 main levers: the constant improvement of the fleet's energy efficiency, in particular through the development […]

  • Flight tests: the reception crew

    The job of test pilot is a "small job". There must be fewer than a hundred active test pilots in France. Some work for the state, within DGA EV, others for manufacturers: Airbus, Dassault, Daher. Of course, it is a question of trying prototypes that have never flown, but also derived, modified or new configurations. […]

  • In the Solar Furnace: Latest Results from Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

    By Alexis Rouillard, CNRS researcher, IRAP Why is the Sun's atmosphere two hundred times hotter than its surface? How are solar winds and thunderstorms created? To answer these major questions in astrophysics, the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter space probes set out in 2018 and 2020 to discover the environment close to the Sun: […]

  • Space medicine and MEDES

    As part of the "Rendez-vous Espace" 2024 lecture series organized by the Association des Amis de la Cité de l'espace in partnership with the Cité de l'espace and the Académie de l'air et de l'espace. Space for health To mark the start of the new academic year, the Friends of the Cité de l'espace are […]

  • Air and Space Days

    During the Air and Space Days, the Swiss Museum of Transport , in collaboration with associations, collectors and partners, presents projects and objects from the world of aeronautics and aerospace. Theme days offer a multitude of opportunities to take an interest in aeronautics and aerospace. Whether it's information about the profession of pilot, guided tours […]

  • Ariane’s thread The epic of European launchers: milestones and prospects

    As part of the "Rendez-vous Espace" 2024 lecture series organized by the Association des Amis de la Cité de l'espace in partnership with the Cité de l'espace, the Académie de l'air et de l'espace and 3AF. Lecture (in french) by Michel EYMARD, former Technical Director of the Safran group, former Director of Launchers at CNES […]

  • Decarbonising Air Transport: a question of energy

    This lecture dedicated to “Decarbonising Air Transport: a question of energy” and organised by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ETSIAE) and the Air and Space Academy, AAE.  With the support of TEDAE y de AIAE Aviation did not wait until 2023 to start decarbonising. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has […]

  • Towards an exploration of the Moon that respects its environment

    By Michel Blanc, Professor Emeritus, IRAP, University of Toulouse, Chair of the COSPAR "Panel on Exploration", fellow of the AAE Lunar exploration is the first step towards future human missions to Mars. It also has its own objectives: scientific research, exploitation of local resources, services for astronauts, and perhaps even tourism. At a time of […]

  • Exploring Jupiter and its icy moons: the JUICE mission

    By Cyril CAVEL, former 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 and scheduled for lift-off in April 2023 to reach Jupiter in July 2031. The mission aims to […]

  • General aviation and hybridization: a solution to accelerate the environmental transition

    Hybrid electric aviation offers a new mode of regional transport for multiple applications: passenger transport, medical evacuation cargo, organ transport... Hybridization techniques are a first technological leap enabling general aviation to meet its carbon objectives as the best route to more sustainable aviation, compatible with the transition from kerosene to SAF. Hybridization will also enable […]