Public session – Pierre Baudis Congress Centre (Cassiopeia hall)
09:30 – Reception speech
- Didier FUSSEN, Doctor of Science, former head of the “Solar Radiation” department at Belgium’s Royal Institute for Space Aeronomy, full member of Section 1, elected June 15, 2023, on :
“Between the two infinities, Science as Pascalian entertainment”.
09:50 – Introducing the new Correspondents
- Philippe AYOUN, Arnaud de ROSNAY, Frédéric EYCHENNE, Serge FLAMENBAUM, FOSSIER Pierre, Jean-Charles FOUCRIER, Chantal FUALDES, Marc GATTI, Marc GUINOT, Rémi JOUTY, Monique LEGRAND-LARROCHE, Antony LICU and Stéphanie LIZY-DESTREZ
10:30 – Break
10:40 – Presentation of the Correspondents (continued)
- Winfried LOHMILLER, Robert MADELIN, Géraldine NAJA, Howard NYE, Xavier PASCO, Philippe PHAM, Étienne RACHOU, Lucien RAPP, Markus RAPP, Francis ROCARD, Benoît ROTURIER, Vittorio SELMIN, Gilles SURDON et Luc TYTGAT
11:30 – Presentation of the Academy medal
- Martine SEGUR, Academy Director from 1997 to 2024
11:45 – End of session
Formal sitting – Hôtel de Ville (Salle des Illustres)
14:00 – Opening of the session
14:05 – Presentation of the new Board
14:15 – Welcome and introduction of new members
- Honorary members: Raymond BENJAMIN, Vincent CAPO CANELLAS and Stéphane DEMILLY
- Fellow members: Antoine BOUVIER, Luc DENEUFCHATEL, Michel FIAT, Yves GOURINAT, Bernard MARCK, David Mc MILLAN, André PREUMONT and Farid ZIZI
15:15 – Break
15:30 pm – Conference
- by Francis ROCARD, Astrophysicist, Head of solar system exploration programs at CNES, Academy Correspondent, on
“What’s new in Solar System exploration? The new American, Chinese and European space missions”.
Exploration of the Solar System never stops, and not a day goes by without a piece of information being released, a discovery being made or a decision being taken to send a probe to explore deep space.
From deep space, with the search for Planet IX, to the closest to the Sun, with the arrival of the European BepiColombo mission to explore Mercury from 2027, the speaker will review the events of 2024, not forgetting the 6th test of the Starship, which is due to land a crew on the Moon in 2026.
16:30 – Medals of the Academy
- Sébastien BOURDARIE, presented by Alain Hauchecorne, for “his expertise in the physics of radiation belts and in the interpretation of in-situ data”.
- Maryla BOUTINEAU, for ” her remarkable two-volume work ‘Les femmes dans les nuages’, which retraces women’s participation in the conquest of the air in the fields of aerostation, aviation and parachuting since 1784″.
- Pedro PONCES CAMANHO and Albert TURON TRAVESA, presented by Alain Garcia, for ” their exceptional contribution to the scientific and industrial advances linked to the widespread use of composite materials in current European programs “.
17:15 – Vermeil Medal
- Yann KERR, Jacqueline BOUTIN and Andrés BORGES ALEJO, presented by Danièle Hauser, to ” honor their contributions to the pioneering SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) space mission“.
17:30 p.m. – Presentation of the Literary Prize
- Marc AUDRIT, for his remarkable book ” Sur les traces de Jean de Selys Longchamps, une vie au galop “.
17:45 – Presentation of the Prize for the Law, Economics and Sociology of Air and Space Transport
- Cyril-Igor GRIGORIEFF for the excellent quality of his thesis “The regime for international air carrier liability: To what extent has the envisaged uniformity of the 1999 Montreal Convention been achieved?
18:00 – Grand Prize
- Alain DABAS, Anders ELFVING, Didier MORANÇAIS and Alessandro d’OTTAVI, for their exceptional contributions to the success of the “Aeolus” mission, a European world first.