Publications

This fertile period of major events influenced the future of our company. Among other things, this led us to amend our statutes to open up to Europe without touching our essential objectives. For example, since 1 January 2007, the National ...

Space systems play a greater and greater role in the everyday life of modern societies, in strategic intelligence and conventional military operations. It is hardly surprising then that space systems could become strategic targets in the event of conflict between ...

Europe has carried out many space exploration missions – to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Titan – both on its own and in partnership with other spacefaring nations. With the announcement of the US “Vision for Space Exploration& #8221;, robotic ...

A progressive decline in world oil production, following a peak around 2010-2030, will result in an oil shortage and rising prices in the near future. Moreover, taxes on carbon emissions will push costs up even further. The future development of ...

The Air and Space Academy has always played an active role in promoting safety in aeronautics, organising conferences and forums and publishing several dossiers on this essential theme. The Academy considers safety aspects from a global point of view, taking ...

This opinion, issued in 2007, addresses improvements in the way investigations following civil aircraft accidents are conducted. [ Download the free PDF version ] ...

Recent changes in American space policy, the spectacular progress realised by China and the relative stagnation of the satellite telecommunications market in the past few years all indicate the need to find a new impetus for European space policy. Constructive ...

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A policy based on cost cuts and enhanced staff and operational efficiency has enabled a new kind of airline to emerge, spread, and gain an increasing share of the air transport market, both extending the limits of this market and injecting ...

Thanks to recent advances in key areas such as information technology, robotics, optronics, radar imaging and data transmission, UAVs (for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are rightly playing a more and more significant role in aeronautics and defence activities. For the moment, ...

Dossier 24 resumes the work begun in 1994 with ANAE’s international colloquium on “Space, Aeronautics and Atmospheric Environment”. In 1997 a report was published jointly with the Académie des Sciences on “The impact of aircraft on the atmospheric environment and ...

Ballistic proliferation is a reality. ALthrought currently limited to short and very short range missiles, one cannot rule out the possibility that it will develop and could represent a threat to France and Europe within the next fifteen years. The ...

More than 5,000 satellites have been launched since 1957 and the large amount of space debris produced as a by-product of this activity represents a significant risk in the event of collision with operational satellites and also, at least for ...

Within the frameworks of a permanent quest for greater safety, a review of the working of the whole air transport system highlights the difficulties encountered and the type of dysfunctions that can lead to accidents. Feedback from experience constitutes a ...

Among the various actions of the Academy, a significant place is accorded to communicating the view of leading figures from aeronautics and space on problems connected with these areas. Published in 1991, ANAE’s dossier n°2 cantained recommendations on the ab ...

This Dossier n°18 sets out the Academy’s deliberations and recommendations concerning air traffic management and describes actions taken in order to obtain both an optimal level of safety and a traffic capacity that matches demand. The Academy had previously published a report ...