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Montée en puissance de #TheLastJeudi Nantes et Xaintrie, organisation et annulation de #SpaceUpAngers, participation au festival Geekfest, création du concept SpaceUp x Conférence… L’heure est au bilan de l’année 2023 pour l’association SpaceUp France, chapitre français de spaceup.org. Le bilan moral de 2023 est très positif, et ce malgré la déception… Lire la suite : Bilan de l’année 2023 et temps forts de 2024

Cela a commencé exactement ainsi, ou presque : « Votre mission, si vous l’acceptez, sera d’introduire des activités typiques d’une non-conférence dans une conférence ». Retour d’expérience sur le hacking (bienveillant) de l’édition 2023 de SpaceCon par SpaceUp France… Le grand principe d’une non-conférence SpaceUp, c’est que tous les participants sont des intervenants… Lire la suite : SpaceCon 2023 : Mission accomplie !

Save the date! On November 17th, we are teaming up with SpaceCon to help boost interactions between participants. Stay tuned for topics announcement! Register to SpaceCon here. See you there!

La prochaine assemblée générale de SpaceUp France se déroulera en ligne le mardi 27 juin de 18h30 à 20h CEST.

The organizing team has decided to cancel the SpaceUp Angers unconference, which was to be held on May 20 and 21 in Angers, France.

Introducing our first VIP guest: Gabriel Tobie is a planetary scientist at the CNRS, attached to the Laboratory of Planetary Geosciences (Nantes, France).

Introducing our first VIP guest: Lieutenant-colonel Vincent from French Space Command, where he is working on international relations in the space domain, mainly with the USA, NATO and other English-speaking countries. He holds diplomas from the French Air Force Academy, ISAE-Supaéro (France), Maxwell AFB’s Air Command and Staff College and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (USA). He has also attended an ISU space summer program and interned at NASA Ames. […]

We are so excited to share the good news with you: registration to SpaceUp Angers is open! This unconference will take place in Angers on May 20 & 21, and we hope you will be part of our fabulous lineup of speakers! The early-bird discount rate of 40€ is offered until… Lire la suite : Registration is open!

It is a well-known fact that to organize a SpaceUp, you need a venue (Espace Air Passion, Angers), you need a date (May 20 & 21, 2023)… and you need a logo. The Anjou region was home to the René and Pierre Gasnier brothers, French aerospace pioneers and pilots, and the… Lire la suite : What is that plane on the SpaceUp Angers logo?

SpaceUp Paris, the first space-related unconference in France, was held on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May 2013 at the European Space Agency headquarters in Paris. An Ariane 6-themed kick-off event organized by CNES took place on the SpaceUp’s eve. More than 125 people coming from 21 countries and 4 continents attended SpaceUp Paris… Lire la suite : Back in time to 2013 and the first SpaceUp France event

#SpaceRendezVous | Given the great success of our The Last Jeudi afterworks, several european associations have let us know about their desire to produce their own space meetup in their cities!We thus had the idea to gather all these international evenings under the name Space Rendez-Vous and post them on the website www.spacerendezvous.org where you can find out… Lire la suite : What’s new ?

Connaissez-vous Insight qui s’est posé sur Mars le 26 novembre ? Et l’un des ses instruments principaux le sismomètre SEIS ? Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur cette mission qui va “écouter battre le coeur de Mars”, venez au MiniSpaceUp Toulouse du 22 mars 2019 à l’IPSA. Gabriel Pont, responsable… Lire la suite : MiniSpaceUp Toulouse 2019 : Insight et SEIS en invités

Bonjour à tous ! Notre SpaceUp est ce dimanche, et voici quelques infos pratiques pour les personnes déjà inscrites ou qui hésiteraient encore (il reste quelques places). Nous serons ravis de vous accueillir au sous-sol du bar Deux Point Zero, 7 rue Blondel, 75003 Paris. Les talks commenceront vers 18h, mais… Lire la suite : Mini SpaceUp Paris : faites l’évènement !

One of our sponsor from past SpaceUp’s, Airbus defence and Space, is inviting young professionals, students and enthusiastic professionals from the space sector to a 1-day workshop about the Moon Village concept. The workshop will be on Wednesday 31st May 2017 in Airbus Defence and Space in Munich. Registration before May 21st Details… Lire la suite : Moon Village Workshop in Munich with Airbus Defence and Space – May 21st

SpaceUp France a organisé, le 12 avril dernier, avec Génération Airbus, la première Yuri’s Night à Toulouse en hommage à Yuri Gagarine, le premier homme dans l’espace, le 12 avril 1961. Cet événement festif a eu lieu en centre-ville, le Connexion Live ayant mis gracieusement sa salle à disposition. Grâce à… Lire la suite : Retour sur notre première Yuri’s Night / Back to our first Yuri’s Night

We’re proud to announce SpaceUp France joined the March for Science movement. Initiated worldwide in reaction to the anti-science positions of the new president of the United States, the March for Science will take place in April 22nd 2017, International Earth Day (ONU), in over 500 cities in more than 20… Lire la suite : SpaceUp France joined the March for Science – April 22nd 2017

SpaceUp France et Génération Airbus organisent la première Yuri‘s Night à Toulouse ! Venez célébrer le premier vol dans l’espace d’un Homme, Yuri Gagarine, le 12 avril 1961. Au sein du Connexion Live et en partenariat avec Airbus, venez à partir de 20h le mercredi 12 avril. Entrée libre Soirée déguisée (thème… Lire la suite : Première Yuri’s Night à Toulouse

Discover the programme of our event in advance ! Don’t print it before coming. it will be available in your swag bag.   And if you  can’t come, follow us on Twitter or Facebook with #SpaceUpTLS  

Last but not least, here is our fourth guest… Léopold Eyharts! Léopold Eyharts is a French ESA astronaut. He is French test pilot, and was selected by CNES (the French space agency,)  in 1990 to become an astronaut. After a training in Russia, he participated in the French-Russian mission Pegase in… Lire la suite : Our last guest : Léopold Eyharts, ESA astronaut

We are happy to announce our third guest, Pascal Régnier! Pascal Régnier is an engineer at our sponsor Airbus, and is currently working on the ESA Juice mission (Jupiter ICy moons Explorer). This mission (launch scheduled in 2022) will explore Jupiter satellites, which are of a great interest for scientists to understand… Lire la suite : Our third guest : Pascal Régnier, Airbus engineer on Juice

If you want to discover what Thomas Pesquet, the european and french astronaut currently in the ISS is telling you in this video, come to #SpaceUpTLS ! Register !

Martin Giard is a senior researcher at IRAP (Research Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology) – Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse), and was IRAP director for 4 years between 2011 and 2015. His work is focused on space observation in the infra-red domain, and he is particularly interested in the observation of the remote… Lire la suite : “Space astrophysics : a window on the origins of our Universe” with Martin Giard

You have been waiting for a long time, now we are pleased to present you our first guest : Sylvestre Maurice Sylvestre Maurice is a planetologist at IRAP (Research Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology) and astronomer at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées. Graduated from SUPAERO in 1990, he is specialist in Solar System… Lire la suite : Our first guest : Sylvestre Maurice, planetologist

Thanks to our sponsor Airbus, we’re delighted to announce that fifteen SpaceUp attendees will be given the opportunity to visit a cleanroom at Airbus Defence and Space on friday, february 3rd at 5:00 PM CEST.   Those cleanrooms are where Eurostar 3000 telecommunications satellites, as well as some Earth observation satellites, are assembled, tested… Lire la suite : Exclusive SpaceUp Toulouse opportunity: a cleanroom visit at Airbus

SCISYS SPACE is a leading provider of integrated solutions and products for ground & on-board systems. Within the ground segment, SCISYS is a reliable and experienced partner for monitoring & control, data processing, automation, autonomous & intelligent systems, system modelling & simulation, infrastructures, data services and applications. In the area of… Lire la suite : SCISYS SPACE has joined our sponsors. Welcome !

Meet the 3AF, or Aeronautics and Astronautics Association of France, 3AF is a french Learned Society with the following missions: Gather anyone involved in the Aeronautics and Astronautics science and technologies, whether for professional reasons or because of their personal curiosity, culture, passion. Honor the best specialists on an international level.… Lire la suite : Do you know our sponsor 3AF ?

One of our first sponsors for SpaceUp Toulouse 2017 is the French “Fonds de Soutien aux Initiatives Etudiantes (FSIE)“ from Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. The “Fonds de Soutien aux Initiatives Etudiantes” (Support Fund for Student Initiatives) aims at encouraging students to throw themselves into community work by supporting projects and inter-campus… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… Fonds de Soutien aux Initiatives Etudiantes

Our next event wil be hosted by ISAE-Supaero   Discover this institute in the following page : Our hosting partner : ISAE-SUPAERO

D-100 before SpaceUp Toulouse 2017 ! SpaceUp Toulouse will take place in ISAE-Supaero, a French engineering school. You can register via this page, this minisite, or even on Facebook. Do it now to secure your spot at SpaceUp Toulouse! We hope to see you there!

SpaceUp France is happy to promote #ActInSpace® 2016! We think that our wonderful participants would like to participate to a “space hackathon”. Enjoy! Friday 20 and Saturday 21 May, ESA, CNES, and ESA BIC Sud France[1] are organizing the second ActInSpace® international space applications hackathon. Taking place simultaneously in 14 countries and 27 cities, the event is… Lire la suite : Registration open for 2016 #ActInSpace®

The SpaceUpX team wishes you a very good year in 2016, many Space and Space Up’s !   New members will join us in 2016. Stay tuned !                

David Iron is a former Royal Navy Engineering Officer and advisor to national investment institutions who, as a specialist on public/private partnerships, has advised on the financing of around 150 technology projects with particular experience in the space sector. He originated the commercial and financial structure for the UK’s £2.5Bn Skynet… Lire la suite : 4th VIP : David Iron, the founder of Lunar Mission One

The association “Ile de Science” has set four missions : Bringing higher education activities, continuing education, research and technological development in order to contribute to the creation of a genuine world-class pole; Promote the harmonious development of geographical space of “Ile de Science” by ensuring the participation of the scientific community… Lire la suite : Ile de Science, another sponsor

The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organisation, established in 1975 with 10 founding member states : Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Today gathering 22 member states, everyday ESA faces the challenge of inter-cultural and international cooperation with a great success.… Lire la suite : We have the support from… ESA

The Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) is the french space agency, and they’re doing us the great honor supporting our event! Indeed, CNES is a pivotal player in Europe’s space programme, and a major source of initiatives and proposals that aim to maintain France and Europe’s competitive edge. The agency’s more-than… Lire la suite : We have the support from… CNES

Jean-Jacques DORDAIN was director of the European Space Agency from 2003 to August 2015, when he was succeeded by Jan Wörner. He graduated from the French École Centrale de Paris and started his career as scientist at ONERA, the French aerospace lab. He worked first in the field of propulsion and… Lire la suite : Third but not least – Another VIP: Jean-Jacques Dordain

Participants of SpaceUpX, brace yourselves, new galaxies are within reach. If you have always been interested in interstellar travel and colonization of the galaxy, be sure to be there on November 7th for our special guest: Roland Lehoucq. Mr. Lehoucq is an astrophysicist from the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA),… Lire la suite : To the stars and beyond – Our first VIP: Roland LEHOUCQ

This year, we’re proud to anounce that Airbus Group will be sponsoring our event once again. Airbus Group, and specially its space company, Airbus Defence and Space, and the forthcoming joint-venture Airbus Safran Launcher, will be present during the week end. Airbus Defence and Space is : Europe’s No. 1 in defence and space… Lire la suite : Airbus Group, one of our sponsor

We are proud to confirm our first sponsor for SpaceUp X 2015 : the French “Fondation Arts et Métiers“ The “Fondation Arts et Métiers” aims at facilitating access to scientific and technological culture, to promote research and education in these areas, to promote the work of engineers in economic activities, and… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… Fondation Arts et Métiers

We know you’ve been waiting for a long time, but it’s coming up now! That’s right, today! SpaceUp X registration is now officially open. Check out how to come and stay near Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. If you want to go to space with us, stop waiting, press the RED BUTTON:… Lire la suite : #SpaceUpX registration is open

From now, you should wonder who is organizing such amazing SpaceUp in France. Because we would like to present you the team, we can just tell you a secret. Yeah, a secret! The SpaceUpX organizing team is here! And you can find us on the social networks: @SpaceUp_FR SpaceUp France page… Lire la suite : Meet the SpaceUpX team

The SpaceUp X logo is mainly based the École Polytechnique logo. The X, denomination given at the École Polytechnique since the mid-20th century, comes from the crossed cannons of the original coat of arms and symbol of science education. The arms of the Polytechnic, historic shield where appears the motto of… Lire la suite : What does SpaceUpX logo mean?

This next edition of your favorite space gathering will take place on the campus of the Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. We’re looking forward to seeing you on November 7th for two days of space unconferences. Bring your creative ideas, your favorite subjects and of course, your desire to share your passion… Lire la suite : Welcome SpaceUpX! The next SpaceUp near Paris

We’ll publish a wrap-up report in a few days on the web site, but we wanted to thank you, again, for joining us at SpaceUp Toulouse. We had a blast!   Presentations If you gave a formal presentation during SpaceUp Toulouse and would like to see it featured on the spaceup.fr… Lire la suite : T+3 days: Thank you!

Philippe Gaudon received a PhD in planetology at the Toulouse Science University in 1988 and subcontracted afterwards for CNES, the French space agency, before joining the CNES in 1991 on a remote sensing satellite project. Philippe has been working on the French contribution for Rosetta since 2001, and has been Rosetta’s project… Lire la suite : SpaceUp Toulouse VIP: Philippe Gaudon (CNES France)

If you are active on social media and plan on “livetweeting” the SpaceUp event, we recommend you add the following hashtags to your tweets/microblogs. This will make it easy for anyone who’s following online not to miss a single piece of information… and it will allow us to compile statistics on the event… Lire la suite : Hashtags

15 days before we meet in person at SpaceUp Toulouse! As a reminder, SpaceUp Toulouse is an unconference, which means that YOU provide most of the content, not us!We’ll start each day with a blank planning board, the “session grid”, and anyone can stick a post-it with their session title on the… Lire la suite : T-15: Let’s talk about space!

We’re delighted to announce that seventeen SpaceUp attendees will be given the opportunity to visit a cleanroom at Airbus Defence and Space on friday, september 19th at 5:00 PM CEST. Those cleanrooms are where Eurostar 3000 telecommunications satellites, as well as some Earth observation satellites, are assembled, tested and configured for “Flight”… Lire la suite : Exclusive SpaceUp Toulouse opportunity: a cleanroom visit

Cité de l’espace boasts a vaulted, 360°, latest-generation planetarium with a 600m² screen, and we’re delighted to announce that we’ll end the first day of the SpaceUp by a planetarium session. It will be a great way to relax after an intense SpaceUp saturday, and gather energy for the Social Dinner!… Lire la suite : Back to the Moon. For good.

We’re delighted to announce that French astronaut Léopold Eyharts will join us at Cité de l’espace on September 20th! Leopold Eyharts’ first flight to space was a Franco-Russian mission called Pegase to the Russian Mir Space Station (29 January to 19 February 1998). Léopold Eyharts then performed various French experiments in the… Lire la suite : French astronaut Léopold Eyharts at SpaceUp Toulouse!

The Cité de l’espace aims at sharing the space adventure with the general public. In 2014, the temporary exhibit “Extreme Explorations” simultaneously introduces two great ongoing adventures: the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the Rosetta spacecraft. These missions are both searching for our origins and the beginning of life. During your visit, check out… Lire la suite : Must-visit at Cité de l’espace

The Occitan cross The Occitan cross is a Greek cross with 4 branches, each terminated by 3 balls. As the Greek Cross is a representation of Christ, the 12 balls refer to the apostles. This cross was brought to Toulouse during the Crusades by Raymond IV, who took part in the Siege of… Lire la suite : “What’s that symbol on your SpaceUp logo?”

Please share them with/in your community. You can either print and post them in your workplace, or share them by email (definitely better for the environment!). PNG files are also available: EN & FR

SpaceUp Toulouse will actually take place behind those doors, next to the Cité de l’Espace IMAX 3D theater! You can register via this page, this minisite, or even on Facebook… Do it now to secure your spot at SpaceUp Toulouse! We definitely hope to see you there!

[View the story “A visit of CNES’ Science Operation and Navigation Center for Philae” on Storify]

Ten months ago, we ended SpaceUp Paris by a surprise Skype call from Thomas Pesquet – ESA astronaut of french origin – calling us from Houston, USA. Surprise call for the participants, of course, to whom we had tried very hard not to tell. To paraphrase famous words from Mission Control, Thomas… Lire la suite : Thomas Pesquet will blast off from Baikonour in 2016!

Remember when Séverine Klein told us during the kick-off event that the CNES Google+ page would soon be online? Well, we have some good news for you today… The first three CNES Hangouts are already planned! For each hangout there will be 4 or 5 participants, plus an expert and Séverine.… Lire la suite : Reserved seating on CNES Hangouts

Just in case you have not seen the article yet!

We set up some twitter statistics tools before the event on different websites, and if you’re interested in those, feel free to check out the links to the reports. I do think these numbers are rather on the conservative side! Indeed, they only count the #SpaceUp and #Ariane6 hashtags, not the tweets… Lire la suite : A bit of Twitter statistics

“Most of all, I would like to thank all of you for making this not an unsuccessful conference… but a successful unconference! We really need to continue like this; go forward, invent, discover… and let’s SpaceUp!”     – extract from Tanguy’s Thank You speech, made on behalf of the whole… Lire la suite : Thank YOU!

The SpaceUp Paris organising team would like to especially thank the European Space Agency for hosting the event and being the most important contributor! The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s… Lire la suite : Introducing our main sponsor… ESA

The Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) is the french space agency, and they’re doing us the great honor of hosting especially for us tonight a kick-off event on Ariane 6, the future european launcher! Indeed, CNES is a pivotal player in Europe’s space programme, and a major source of initiatives and proposals that… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… CNES

We’re very pleased to have two SpaceUp participants working on the Gaia project, ESA’s astronometry mission launching mid-september. Isabelle is french, works for Astrium and is responsible for quality insurance for the Gaia spacecraft assembly and tests phases in Toulouse. Torgeir is norwegian (he’s our only norwegian participant!) and will explain why… Lire la suite : Introducing Gaia, ESA’s next astronometry mission

The event at CNES Launchers Directorate will end at 8:00pm after some networking around a light buffet.  If you want to prolong the evening with your fellow spacetweeps, you can join the group going to a nearby bar, the InOut. It is a 10mns walk from the CNES premises, and you… Lire la suite : Friday night drinks

The Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Thousands of linked radio wave receptors will be located in Australia and in Southern Africa. Combining the signals from the antennas in each region will create a telescope with a collecting area equivalent to a dish with… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… The Square Kilometer Array (SKA)

For our non-french-speaking participants, note that Ciel & Espace is a monthly magazine and a website, on which you will also find podcasts. Ciel & Espace literally translates as Sky & Space, so if you’re into those subjects and remember some of your high-school french, take a look! www.cieletespace.fr

We thought you might be famished saturday night after a spacetastic first day at SpaceUp, so we went ahead and made a reservation at the Flam’s Montparnasse. We negociated an all-you-can-eat Flamenkueches dinner, both salty & sweet. Soft drinks are unlimited, and you can choose between 1 liter of beer/person, or… Lire la suite : Saturday night dinner

If you are on Twitter and plan on livetweeting the SpaceUp event, we recommend you add the following hashtags to your tweets. This will make it easy for anyone who’s following online not to miss a single tweet… and it will allow us to compile statistics on the event visibility!

What better way to introduce ESO (European Southern Observatory) than this short version of the stunning Europe to the Stars movie, which celebrates ESO’s first 50 years of exploring the southern sky? Loading player… Thank you ESO for being a SpaceUp Paris sponsor!

Sadly not a rocket launch, but second-best! Fiorella Coliolo has extended the following invitation to the SpaceUp Paris participants… “We are pleased to invite you at the official launch of the WIA-E Paris local group on May 24th, 18h30, at the ‘Espace des Femmes’. This inaugural event will involve prominent speakers… Lire la suite : Launch invitation

If you have already attended ESA events, you will certainly recognize his name! Marc Toussaint is of Belgian nationality, graduated from Liège University and Stanford University. He started his career at Dornier System in Germany as a system engineer, then joined the European Space Agency (ESA) at ESTEC, and later in… Lire la suite : Marc Toussaint, launchers expert!

Among the participants at SpaceUp Paris is Fiorella Coliolo, whom you may have already met at ESA events. Fiorella is an astrophysicist by training, with a strong experience in communication and public relations working with ESA, National Space Agencies, industries, European scientific institutions and museums. Like so many of us, Firorella… Lire la suite : Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E)

We launched a contest a few days ago to determine who would be the lucky 10 kick-off participants to actually visit the CNES concurrent design facility, called “Salle du Futur”. The answer to the question (what was the name of the first french orbital rocket?) is in the video below… as… Lire la suite : And the winners are…

Today we are glad to present you 3AF. The 3AF, or Aeronautics and Astronautics Association of France, is a french Learned Society with the following missions: Gather anyone involved in the Aeronautics and Astronautics science and technologies, whether for professional reasons or because of their personal curiosity, culture, passion. Honor the… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… 3AF

The registrations are closing in 5 days and everything is going great. But we have one more thing to offer those who are going to the kick-off event. Among the participants, 10 will have the chance to visit the “Salle du futur” in CNES. This is the concurrent design facility of… Lire la suite : “Salle du futur” competition

Araba Molly Acquaisie just registered for SpaceUp Paris… You may not recognize her name, but if you’re worried about the probability of an asteroid hitting Earth, you may have read some of her tweets! As you may have guessed, Molly is one of the NEOShield Communications and Public Outreach officers, and… Lire la suite : NEOShield at SpaceUp Paris!

French astronaut Léopold Eyharts will also join us at the SpaceUpParis event, taking place on Saturday May 25th at ESA Headquarters. Leopold Eyharts’ first flight to space was a Franco-Russian mission called Pegase to the Russian Mir Space Station (29 January to 19 February 1998). Léopold Eyharts then performed various French experiments… Lire la suite : French astronaut Léopold Eyharts at SpaceUpParis!

Eric Lorigny, head of the French Instrument Mars Operation Center (FIMOC), will join us at SpaceUp Paris from Toulouse by video conference! So if you want to know everything about this famous Curiosity’s red-laser-gun, you should not miss that! As a young space enthusiast, Eric started to work on this domain… Lire la suite : Curiosity’s ChemCam chief operator at SpaceUp Paris!

SpaceUp Paris could not happen without the support of its sponsors. Among them, we would like to warmly thank HE Space. You do not know what HE Space does? HE Space is a major provider of professional staff to space agencies and to the commercial space industry. Our exclusive focus on… Lire la suite : Introducing our sponsor… HE Space

We very happy to announce today that Jean-François Clervoy, one of our french astronauts, will join us at SpaceUp Paris on May 25th, 2013! Jean-François flew in space 3 times, twice aboard space shuttle Atlantis (STS-66, STS-84), and once with Discovery, on the famous STS-103 mission which managed to repair the… Lire la suite : Astronaut Jean-François Clervoy at SpaceUp Paris!

It is now more than likely that SpaceUp Paris will take place at ESA Headquarters on May 25th & 26th! More news to come soon!

Bienvenue cher visiteur ! Here we will talk about the different SpaceUp organized in France and in the world. The website is currently under construction but you can expect some update soon. -Enguerran