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On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Artemis-2 should mark the great return of a manned mission towards the Moon. Four astronauts, three men and a woman, for a tour of our satellite and a return to Earth, all to last ten days. A symbolic mission, but also very political. Alban GuyomarcH, researcher associated with the Espace Chair, answered questions from the listeners alongside Xavier Pasco (FRS)
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At the Perspectives Spatiales event, organized by Gifas on March 18, 2026, the Space Chair team presented its current research. As its scientific director, Stéphanie Ruphy, noted, the Space Chair brings together a team of six researchers and, as a node in a European research network, visiting scholars.
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A cross look at women’s backgrounds in the space field, the professional realities of the sector, the challenges of legitimacy, the performance requirements and the codes that structure the scientific, industrial and institutional environments. A round table led by Anna Hurova, post-doc at the Espace Chair and Clémentine Fourrier-Eyraud, Coordinator of the Women and Girls Science program at theset.
With Fatima Iervolino (Space engineer at ArianeGroup), Pamela Meuleye (Creator of Space Women Alliance, Global Director Customer Excellence at Eutelsat) and Jade Ricouart (Responsible for the future at MBDA)
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In 2026 a highly anticipated launch is planned – and already postponed several times: that of Artemis-2, the second mission of the Artemis lunar exploration program, which began in 2017 by NASA and its partners. At the end of 2026, China is due to send a robotic mission to the lunar South Pole, Chang’e-7, while India is preparing the Chandrayaan-4 moon landing for 2027.Alban GuyomarcH, Associate Researcher of the Space Chair, in The Conversation.
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The ENS Space Chair had a booth at the Science Festival. Kids and parents got to check out what the chair does through a mini-exhibition, a quiz, and a drawing workshop to reimagine space: magazine pages, repurposed ads, comics, and more. The event was put on in partnership with Lily Hibberd and Annick Bureaud’s Venus Conversations collective.
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While space agencies and companies are working to develop extraterrestrial exploration, anthropology researcher Susie Pottier is focused on applying the spirit of the “Treaty on Space.”
Read the interview in Libération on the occasion of the Biennale du vivant organized by the École normale supérieure.
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‘Europe in Space’: Harmonizing the institutional orchestra
Alban Guyomarc’h, associate researcher at the chair and doctoral student in space law at Assas, revisits the concept of ‘Europe in Space’ for the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics (Big Europe) in order to clarify its contours and possible meanings. The very term ‘Europe in Space’ covers a heterogeneous group of public and private actors operating at different levels – European, national, and local – whose programs reflect institutional fragmentation and fragmented governance rather than a common strategy.
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Katia Coutant, Associate Researcher at the Space Chair, talks to The Conversation about the increasingly popular term “weaponization of Space”. How does it differ from the notion of militarization? How do dual-use technologies blur the boundary between civilian and military? And what does the Space Treaty really say about the use of weapons?
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Should the Moon be considered a common good or the object of a new mining race? This is the question raised by journalist Charles Perraguin for Le Philonomist, Philosophie Magazine’s online medium. He interviewed our Space Chair post-docs, Susie Pottier and Camille Ternier, to shed light on the symbolism of the Moon for human societies and the tensions raised by the resource extraction ambitions of China, the USA and Russia.
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On 12 February 2025, Stéphanie Ruphy, Scientific Director of the ENS Space Chair, spoke at the 13ᵉ edition of Perspectives Spatiales, organised by GIFAS – Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales and Novaspace. In her contribution, she analysed the challenges of a shared vision for the use of Space. The event brought together more than 250 experts from the private and public sectors of the French and European space industry.
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What have they become? Through a series of portraits, the ENS website meets the alumni. In this article, Alban Guyomarc’h, associate researcher at the Espace chair, talks about how he came to study space law. He talks about his research themes. Can space exploration and global warming be reconciled? When you work in the field of space, do you dream of going to the Moon?
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Stéphanie Ruphy, Scientific Director of the Space Chair, gave a wide-ranging interview to XXI magazine on the Chair’s areas of research : uses and representations of Space, Space as a common good and the sustainability issues arising in the light of the increasing number of satellites put into orbit in recent years.
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Stéphanie Ruphy, Scientific Director of the Space Chair at ENS-PSL took part in the round table devoted to space culture (competitiveness of the new economy and citizen support for space policies) at the Assises du New Space on Wednesday 26 June 2024 alongside Jean-Baptiste DESBOIS, director of the Cité de l’Espace, Hugo LISOIR, youtuber, Vanina PAOLI-GAGIN Gagin, senator for Aube and Lou Valade from the student association ASTRES.
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Alban Guyomarc’h, associate researcher at the Space Chair and teacher of the course on the challenges of space law, took part in the Téléphone Sonne programme on France Inter alongside Arnaud Saint-Martin, researcher at the CNRS and Sophie Bécherel, science journalist. On the agenda: Space X, the International Space Station and China’s space mission to the far side of the Moon.