By Dr. Patrick Michel, Director of Research at the CNRS/Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, ESA Hera Mission Scientific Manager The DART (NASA) and Hera (ESA) missions are the first fully documented asteroid deflection test based on the kinetic impactor technique, to verify and potentially validate this technique and numerical simulations of asteroid-scale impacts. The first […]
By Jean Blouvac , Head of the Exploration and Human Spaceflight Program, CNES At the November 2022 Ministerial Conference, ESA Member States confirmed their involvement in human exploration and flight through the Terrae Nova programme. A few days before the launch of the ARTEMIS I mission was successfully carried out allowing the first mission of […]
Small satellites and cubesats have grown in popularity over the last decade as effective tools for space research and technology demonstrations for a variety of applications. The cubesat approach to space missions combined with recent advances in cubesat technologies offer innovative cost-effective and fast turn-around solutions for addressing fundamental scientific questions in Earth remote sensing, […]
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 […]
Overview The increased complexity of modern warfare requires the British Armed Forces, along with its allies in NATO and across the world, to be prepared to fight as a joint force in a multi-threat environment in order to achieve desired effects in all domains and at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. In an increasingly […]
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 […]
A forum entitled "Towards New European Military Helicopter Programs", organized by the Air and Space Academy, was held in Paris on June 15, 2022, during the Eurosatory Exhibition. This forum confirmed that it is time to prepare the next generation of rotorcraft, the key points are to define a common set of capability requirements at […]
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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 Sylvestre Maurice, astrophysicist at IRAP, specialist in Martian exploration, AAE correspondent These are great times! To date, 12 vehicles are operational around Mars or on its surface. Trophy of national supremacy, field of technological experiments, source of wonder for the peoples who follow with fervor this adventure, the exploration of the red planet represents […]
