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50Ans Du Cnes cnesLE MAGAZINE D’INFORMATION DU CENTREmag NATIONAL D’ÉTUDES SPATIALES N°51•11/2011 SOYOUZ EN GUYANE : UN LANCEMENT HISTORIQUE Soyuz in Guiana: a historic launch LES50 ANS DU CNES CNES at 50 YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND Un photographe engagé A photographer on a mission sommaire ERATJ contents N°51 - 11/2011 08 04 / 17 news Lancement réussi de Megha-Tropiques Megha-Tropiques successfully launched Démantèlement du pas de tir d’Ariane 4 Ariane 4 launch pad taken down 13 Chasse aux places de parking A solution to the parking space race 18 / 29 politique Business & politics 18 Interview exclusive de Laurent Wauquiez, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche Exclusive interview with Laurent Wauquiez, Minister for Higher Education and Research e-santé : nouvelles technologies, nouvelles prises en charge e-health: new technologies, new modes of patient care Ville/Vie/Vacances, l’autre façon de découvrir les sciences Space in my City: seeing science through new eyes 30 / 37 société Society Filière bois : ressources et exploitation du massif vosgien 30 Wood industry: resources and exploitation of the Vosges forest Culture : l’espace à l’affiche Culture: space on the scene 38 / 53 dossier Special report A R I A T P A R T E N ag Les 50 ans du CNES cne sm CNES at 50 54 / 64 Monde World France-Japon, l’esprit partenaire France-Japan: the spirit of partnership Transport spatial, les options américaines se précisent Space transport: US options becoming clearer 65 / 71 culture Arts & living L’image au cœur des festivités des 50 ans Images at the heart of the 50th anniversary festivities Autour d’un café, Les Mardis de l’espace Tuesday space lectures 54 CNESMAG journal trimestriel de communication externe du Centre national d’études spatiales. 2 place Maurice-Quentin. 75039 Paris Cedex 01. Adresse postale pour abonnement: 18 avenue Édouard-Belin. 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9. Tél.: +33 (0) 5 61283390. Internet: http://www.cnes.fr/ Cette revue est réalisée par le Service de la communication institutionnelle. Elle est membre de l’Union des journaux et journalistes d’entreprises de France (UJJEF) Abonnement: [email protected]. CNESMAG quarterly review of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales – 2 place Maurice-Quentin 75039 Paris cedex 01 – France – Postal address for subscriptions: 18 ave- nue Edouard Belin 31401 Toulouse cedex 9 – France. Phone: +33 (0) 561273 469. Website: http://www.cnes.fr. This review is produced by the CNES Corporate Communications Office, a member of the French union of corporate publications and journalists (UJJEF). Subscriptions: [email protected]. Directeur de la publication/Publication director: Yannick d’Escatha. Responsables éditoriaux/Editorial directors: Pierre Tréfouret, Joëlle Brami. Rédactrice en chef/Editor-in-chief: Brigitte Thomas. Rubrique News: Liliane Feuillerac. Politique/Business & Politics: Brigitte Thomas. Société/Society: Marie-Claude Siron. Dossier/Special Report: Brigitte Thomas. Europe/Europe: Geneviève Gargir. Monde/World: Brigitte Thomas. Culture/Arts & Living: Marie-Claude Siron. Avec l’aide de/Contributors: Fernand Alby, Laurence Amen, Jacques Arnould, Jean-Marc Astorg, Gérard Azoulay, Karol Barthélémy, Marine Bernat, Christophe Bonnal, Pascale Bresson, Bernard Cabrières, Sylvie Callari, Fabienne Casoli, Gilles Cibiel, Philippe Collot, Sophie Coutin- Faye, Marie-Anne Clair, Michel Dejus, Chantal Delabarre, Romain Desplats, Danièle DeStaerke, Claire Dramas, Thierry Duquesne, Patrick Dumont, Claire Edery -Guirado, Alain Gaboriaud, Geneviève Gargir, Marcel Gilli, Antonio Guell, André Husson, Marie-Pierre Joseph- Alberton, Séverine Klein, Anne-Marie Laborde, Olivier La Marle, Catherine Lambert, Brice Lamotte, Philippe Laudet, Éric Medaille, Élisabeth Moussine-Pouchkine, Jennifer Newlands, Jean-Gabriel Parly, Jacqueline Perbos, Amélie Proust, Chantal Raynaud, Francis Rocard, Henry de Roquefeuil, Anne Serfass-Denis, Florence Seroussi, Jacques Simon, Martial Vanhove, Nicolas Verdier, Michel Viso. Traduction/English text: Boyd Vincent. Conseil iconographique/Artwork and picture consultant: Serge Delmas. Photothèque/Photos: Marie-Claire Fontebasso. Crédits photos/Photo credits: voir liste des copyrights en page 70/See list of copyrights on page 70. Pour tout renseignement, contacter la photothèque au Tél.: + 33 (0) 5 61 474878./For more information, contact the photo library on +33 (0) 561 474 878. Création/Réalisation maquette/Design and pre-press: TONGA/Véronique Nouailhetas. Impression/Printing: Ménard: ISSN 1283-9817. 2 / cnes mag NOVEMBRE 2011 de l’espace pour la terre Billet d’humeur de Pierre Tréfouret Directeur de la communication externe, de l’éducation et des affaires publiques, CNES Director of External Communications, Education and Public Relations, CNES « L’imagination, reine des facultés » homme est doté d’un étrange pouvoir, celui de l’imagination. Autant que nous puissions le savoir, aucun autre être vivant n’est capable, selon les mots de Gaston Bachelard, de s’absenter, de s’élancer vers une vie nouvelle. Car telle est bien la capacité de notre L’cerveau, celle d’outrepasser les frontières connues de l’espace et du temps, de franchir les limites imposées par le réel, de revendiquer une liberté sans bornes, un monde illimité de possibles. Dépourvue d’imagination, notre humanité ne se serait sans doute guère éloignée de son berceau; elle aurait été incapable de créer les cultures qui la singularisent au sein du monde vivant. « L’imagination, disait fort justement Charles Baudelaire, est la reine des facultés. » En effet, l’imagination, donnant de la force à l’esprit, devient constructrice d’objectifs semblant auparavant inatteignables. Nous le savons tous: si, des siècles durant, nos anciens n’avaient rêvé du cosmos, n’avaient imaginé rejoindre le ciel à bord de vaisseaux construits de leurs propres mains, jamais, à l’aube du XXe siècle, des savants et des ingénieurs n’auraient posé les bases de l’astronautique moderne. Encore a-t-il fallu que leurs audaces, leurs efforts soient reconnus, soutenus et canalisés par des structures politiques, des 38 flux économiques, des attentes sociales. La création du CNES, voilà cinquante ans, par le général de Gaulle, a permis de se projeter dans l’imaginaire en prenant acte du rôle, des compétences et des besoins de la France dans la conquête et la construction de l’espace. Depuis, bien des rêves, des projets d’alors ont été réalisés. D’autres sont nés en cours d’histoire: ne sommes-nous pas entourés et aidés dans notre vie quotidienne par des technologies spatiales consi- dérées comme de la pure science-fiction, il y a un demi-siècle, et aujourd’hui parfaitement au point? Et ce n’est pas fini. D’abord, parce que l’espace est encore très jeune. Ensuite, parce que « l’espace n’est pas un luxe », pour reprendre les mots de notre ministre, Laurent Wauquiez. Car il reste encore tant de domaines nécessaires à imaginer, à conquérir, à exploiter… Il reste aussi tout un univers à explo- rer dont notre connaissance n’est encore qu’embryonnaire. Faisons confiance à notre imagination: l’avenir de notre humanité, sur terre et dans l’espace, en dépend. Viewpoint / “Imagination is the queen of faculties” We humans are blessed with a curious ability: the mind to set our sights on goals that are otherwise Many of those early dreams and projects have power to imagine. To the best of our knowledge, seemingly impossible to reach. been accomplished in the intervening years. no other living thing is capable, in the words We all know that if our ancestors had not dreamed Others have been spawned along the way: are of Gaston Bachelard, of absenting itself, of for centuries of the cosmos and imagined one we not surrounded and aided today by space projecting itself into another life. For that is what day taking to the skies aboard vessels crafted by technologies seen as pure science-fiction only a the human brain is capable of doing: bypassing their own hands, then scholars and engineers half-century ago yet now considered routine? the known frontiers of space and time, breaking never could have laid the foundations of modern And we are far from finished. First, because space the bounds of reality and craving for unfettered astronautics at the dawn of the 20th century. And remains a very young field. And second, because freedom, a world of limitless possibilities. Without for that, their bold efforts had to be acknowledged, “space is not a luxury”, to quote our Minister for imagination, humankind would doubtless not supported and channelled by political structures, Space, Laurent Wauquiez. For there are still so have wandered far from its original birthplace, economic flows and social expectations. The many areas to imagine, conquer and exploit; we incapable of creating the cultures that single us creation of CNES 50 years ago by President also have so much still to learn about a Universe out among the world of the living. “Imagination is Charles de Gaulle enabled us to make that leap, we are only just beginning to explore. So let the queen of faculties,” as Charles Baudelaire so giving form to the role, know-how and needs that us have faith in our imagination: the future of aptly put it. Indeed, imagination empowers the France has marshalled in its quest for space. humankind, on Earth and in space, depends on it. space for earth NOVEMBRE 2011 cnes mag / 3 ERATJ news e 7 décembre 2001, neuf ans après Atoll de Moorea Topex-Poséidon et ses observations (Polynésie française), précieuses sur le couple atmosphère- par Yann Arthus-Bertrand. «L Moorea atoll, French océan, Jason-1 paraissait un successeur Polynesia, pictured by prometteur », dit Sophie Coutin-Faye. Yann Arthus-Bertrand. « Nous avions fondé de grands espoirs sur ce satellite, avec juste raison. » Dès son lancement, ses performances iné- galées ont ouvert une voie royale à l’alti- métrie opérationnelle. Tirant profit d’une technologie de haute précision, le satellite est équipé des meilleurs altimètres et radiomètres et dispose, avec son récep- teur Doris, d’une localisation centimé- trique à bord.
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