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Ariane, L'art Des Lanceurs CNES CENTRE NATIONAL D’ÉTUDESmag SPATIALES MAGAZINE 01/2015 LOGOTYPE TONS MONOCHROME NOIR & BLANC64 POSITIF NOIR LOGOTYPE COMPLET (SYMBOLE ET TYPOGRAPHIE) NOIR CRÉATION CARRÉ NOIR AOÛT 2005 JASON 3 L’OCÉANOGRAPHIE OPÉRATIONNELLE À MATURITÉ Operational oceanography comes of age FRANCIS DURANTHON Le paléontologue passionné d’espace A paleontologist with a passion for space SOMMAIRE RATJ Contents E N°64 - 01/2015 4 NEWS 18 POLITIQUE 46 SOCIÉTÉ • L’ATV-5, dernière mission • Entretien avec Geneviève • Croesus, le papillon mythique • Un banc de tests nouvelle Fioraso sur le choix d’Ariane 6 à l’heure du satellite génération • Communautés de compétences • Le système Pléiades, un atout • Pilot en phase finale techniques, l’open innovation pour les assurances d’intégration made in CNES SOCIETY On the tracks of a legendary butterfly Fifth and last ATV mission POLITICS Interview with Geneviève Fioraso on the Pleiades system comes up trumps for New-generation testing facility insurers PILOT enters final integration phase decision to go with Ariane 6 Technical competence communities drive open innovation at CNES 54 INTERNATIONAL 65 CULTURE • Vol habité, • Festival Sidération, la méthode indienne la grande table de l’utopie • Commission Juncker, l’espace • Ariane, l’art des lanceurs, à la DG Croissance à paraître Human spaceflight the Indian way ARTS & LIVING Juncker Commission moves space to DG Sidération festival conjures up 32 DOSSIER a utopian world Growth 25 New Ariane album out soon JASON 3 CNESmagéduc L’OCÉANOGRAPHIE © © JOE SEETEN ARGONAUTICA Supplément pédagogique OPÉRATIONNELLE À MATURITÉ Watching over the oceans LILIANE FEUILLERAC FOR CNES Argonautica The state of the world’s oceans gives reason for concern and is one of the crucial L’océan sous surveillance environmental challenges facing us today. As a key element of the global climate LILIANE FEUILLERAC POUR LE CNES balance, oceans are under close watch. For the last 10 years, through the Argonautica u cœur des enjeux environnementaux qui s’imposent à nous comme cruciaux, l’étatprogramme with its buoys, satellite data CNES Éduc n°25 de l’océan est préoccupant. Acteur majeur d’équilibre climatique, il fait l’objet d’ob-and 2D and 3D maps, CNES has brought mag teachers and their classes an attractive way Aservations soutenues. Depuis dix ans, avec Argonautica, ses bouées, ses satellites, to study and track marine wildlife. Oceans ses cartes 2D ou 3D, le CNES associe de manière attrayante élèves et enseignants à ces can also be approached in a more traditional way in the classroom at all levels SPECIAL REPORT études et au suivi des espèces animales marines. Mais la thématique « océan » peut aussi and through many subjects, with sustainable être abordée traditionnellement en classe dans de nombreuses disciplines : le développementdevelopment as the guiding thread. durable est une constante. Aucun niveau, aucune matière ne sont oubliés : tous impliqués,From kindergarten through to junior high, sustainable development is part of the core tous concernés ! Educational supplement curriculum. Oceans and related subjects— Les programmes du premier degré et du collège intègrent l’éducation au développement human impacts, pollution and climate durable dans le socle commun de connaissances et de compétences. L’océan et les compo-change—can therefore be addressed from a disciplinary or cross-disciplinary Jason 3 santes qui en découlent (impact de l’homme, pollution, changements climatiques) peuventperspective, focusing for example on donc s’y rattacher de manière disciplinaire ou interdisciplinaire. Les domaines de la culturescience and engineering, humanist culture, scientifique et technique, de la culture humaniste, des compétences sociales et civiques ousocial de and civic skills or autonomy and initiative. At high school, besides the life l’autonomie et de l’initiative s’y prêtent particulièrement. Au lycée, outre les programmes andde Earth sciences and geography curricula, SVT et de géographie, la filière STI2D, « sciences et technologies de l’industrie et du dévelop-the science and technology for industry and sustainable development stream (STI2D) pement durable », trace la voie. points the way. Operational oceanography comes of age Portrait Profile Danielle de Staerke N°64 • JANVIER 2015 CNESmag > P. 4 SUPPLÉMENT D’INFORMATION DE 2 CNESmag JANVIER 2015 ÉDITORIAL Jean-Yves Le Gall, CNESmag journal trimestriel de com- munication externe du Centre national président du CNES d’études spatiales. 2 place Maurice- CNES President Quentin. 75039 Paris Cedex 01. Adresse postale pour abonnement : 18 avenue Édouard-Belin. 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9. Tél. : + 33 (0) 5 61 28 33 90. Internet : http://www.cnes.fr Cette revue est membre de l’Union des journaux et journalistes d’entreprises de France. This review is a member of the French union of corporate publications and journalists. Abonnement/Subscriptions: [email protected] Directeur de la publication/Publication director: Jean-Yves Le Gall. Directrice éditoriale/Editorial director: Marie-Claude Salomé. Rédactrice en « 2015, un espace pour le climat » chef/Editor-in-chief: Brigitte Thomas. Rubrique News : Liliane Feuillerac. Politique/ Après une année 2014 riche de succès et de décisions, 2015 va placer les enjeux liés au climat au centre Politics: Guillaume De Blanchard, Dossier/ de notre politique spatiale. Special Report, International : Brigitte Thomas. Société/Society: Joëlle Brami. D’abord, parce que plusieurs programmes scientifiques et technologiques sur lesquels le CNES travaille Culture/Arts & Living: Marie-Claude Siron. Avec l’aide de/Contributors: Laurence Amen, depuis des années vont commencer à porter leurs fruits. C’est le cas du satellite Jason 3 que nous Marie-Françoise Bahloul, Christophe Bastien- allons lancer dans le courant de l’été et qui va poursuivre l’étude des océans, commencée en 1992 avec Thiry, Patrice Benarroche, Pascale Bresson, Didier Chaput, Sylvain Charrier, Delphine Topex-Poséidon, suivi par Jason 1 et 2. Chenevier, Philippe Collot, Christine Ensuite, parce que de nombreux projets, tous plus innovants les uns que les autres, sont en cours de Correcher, Vincent Costes, Michel Dejus, Chantal Delabarre, Muriel Deleuze, Émeline développement. SWOT va permettre de mieux connaître le comportement de l’eau douce sur les terres Deseez, Romain Desplats, Danièle de émergées, IASI NG va améliorer encore davantage les prévisions météorologiques et Merlin va étudier Staerke, Claire Dramas, Vincent Dubourg, Claire Edery-Guirado, Pierric Ferrier, Philippe le méthane et ses conséquences sur l’effet de serre. Gaudon, Hugo Gonzalez, Joëlle Guinle, Nathalie Journo, Séverine Klein, Carine Enfin, parce que la France va accueillir à Paris, au mois de décembre, la conférence COP 21, au cours de Leveau, Stéphane Louvel, Jean-Michel laquelle va se retrouver l’ensemble de la communauté concernée par le climat. Et l’espace sera bien sûr Martinuzzi, Didier Massonnet, Jean Mignot, au centre des débats, grâce à ce qu’il apporte en termes de connaissance de notre planète et surtout Sandra Laly, Philippe Laudet, Élisabeth Moussine-Pouchkine, Jean Oswald, Lionel de son évolution. Ries, Hélène Ruiz, Muriel Saccocio, Mathilde Savreux, Françoise Schiavon, Anne Serfass- En 2015, c’est donc sous le signe de la maîtrise du climat que sera placée notre action. Et nous devrons Denis, Florence Serroussi. Jean-Claude absolument réussir parce que, comme l’a fort justement dit le secrétaire Général de l’ONU, nous ne Souriys, Sylvia Sylvander, Michel Wauzelle. Traduction/English text: Boyd Vincent. pouvons pas échouer, parce qu’« il n’y a pas de plan B puisqu’il n’y a pas de planète B ». Conseil iconographique/Artwork and picture consultant: Serge Delmas. C’est pour cela que, pour le CNES, il y aura en 2015, un espace pour le climat. Photothèque/Photos: Marie-Claire Fontebasso. Crédits photos/Photo credits: Voir page 71/ See page 71. Pour tout ren- 2015 - Space for climate seignement, contacter la photothèque au After a series of stellar successes and key decisions in 2014, this year will be putting climate issues firmly at Tél.: + 33 (0) 5 61 47 48 78. For more the centre of our space policy. information, contact the photo library on +33 (0) 561 474 878. First, because a number of science and technology programmes that CNES has been working on for some Création/Réalisation maquette/Design and time are about to start bearing fruit. A good example is the Jason 3 satellite that we are set to launch this pre-press: TONGA/Véronique Nouailhetas. summer to pursue the study of the oceans begun in 1992 with TOPEX/Poseidon and since continued by Impression/Printing: Ménard: ISSN 1283- Jason 1 and 2. 9817. Second, because many new projects—each one as innovative as the next—are in development. SWOT will tell us more about Couverture/Cover: Le phare du Four dans freshwater on land surfaces, while IASI NG is going to further improve weather forecasting and MERLIN is set to study methane le Finistère (Bretagne). Le Four lighthouse, and its impacts as a greenhouse gas. Finistère (Britanny). © Guillaume Plisson And lastly, because France is hosting the COP 21 global climate summit in Paris in December, where the world climate community will be coming together. Space is of course going to be centre stage at this gathering, due to its key role in bringing a better understanding of our planet and above all its evolution. CNES’s efforts in 2015 will therefore be focusing on forecasting and mitigating the impacts of climate change. This is a challenge we cannot fail to meet, for as the UN Secretary General has so rightly said: “There is no Plan B, because there is no Planet B”. That is why for 2015, our mantra is “space for climate”. CNESmag JANVIER 2015 3 ERATJ NEWS Largué par la sonde Rosetta, le petit robot Philae de 100 kg, bardé d’instruments scientifiques, s’est posé, le 12 novembre 2014, sur un « caillou » de 5 km sur 4 km à plus de 500 millions de kilomètres de la Terre. Surnommée « Chouri », la comète a été atteinte au terme d’un voyage interpla- nétaire de dix ans.
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