Two ISAE-SUPAERO start-ups honoured at the GALAXIE 2025 Awards

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The Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO entrepreneurship prize has been awarded to Paul Lascombes, a graduate of ISAE-SUPAERO (S2017) and Ecole Polytechnique (X2013), co-founder and Scientific Director of EXOTRAIL created in 2017. Exotrail is a start-up that designs and supplies transportation solutions for the space industry. It markets electric propulsion systems to small satellite manufacturers. It all began for Paul during his studies at the École Polytechnique (X2013), where he carried out a scientific project to develop an instrument for measuring the thrust of an electric microthruster. Thanks to this project, carried out in 2014/2015, he became interested in the space field and the commercialization opportunities for this new type of thruster adapted to nanosatellites. This project will be the seed of the Exotrail adventure launched in 2015. During his studies, first at École polytechnique, then at ISAE-SUPAERO (S2017), Paul Lascombes developed both his scientific and entrepreneurial culture, while starting to work more and more intensively for Exotrail. In 2017, following his end-of-study internship at Airbus Defence and Space, he joined Exotrail full-time to prepare two projects: building the company, from a strategic and technical point of view, to carry out an initial fundraising, but also the technical animation that enables them to capitalize on the knowledge acquired during development with SATT Paris-Saclay, (Société d'Accélération du Transfert de Technologies (SATT) facilitates and develops the transfer of innovations from public academic research) ... This was to lay the foundations for the technologies needed for our demonstration mission, all with a small team of 6 people. After this first round of funding and the consequent growth of the team, Paul's work focused on three main areas in line with his role as Scientific Director: - Operational management of the Toulouse-based software development team. - Technical leadership of the whole team and coordination of R&D. His role is to constructively challenge the technical choices made by the development teams. He/she is responsible for ensuring the overall coherence of activities and the technical interactions of the various developments, and for coordinating R&D actions. - The definition of Exotrail's long-term strategy. He leads thinking on the SpaceVan (orbital transport vehicle housing nanosatellites to transport them to their final operational orbit from launch orbit.) and stays connected on launch and in-orbit service issues. The entrepreneurship prize launched by the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation in 2019 aims to encourage entrepreneurship, and is a way of supporting start-ups in their innovative and promising projects, particularly in the field of aeronautics, space and defense.

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Discover the “Lanceur d'étoiles” startup support program! Born of the association of thirteen national and regional partners, experts in DSA and Deeptech startup creation (academic institutions, national organizations, SATT, regional incubators and gas pedals) and brought together in a consortium, “Lanceur d'étoiles” aims to guide and help project leaders propel their innovative technologies through value-creating startups. The program is led and coordinated by Toulouse Tech Transfer on behalf of its partners, under the impetus of the University of Toulouse. It is supported by the PUI UT Innovation, one of whose key actions is to stimulate the creation of deeptech startups through tailor-made support for project leaders. Find out more about the “lanceur d'étoiles” support program and the startups it hosts: https://www.isae-supaero.fr/IMG/pdf/lanceur-dossier_de_presse-0310.pdf Video credit: Toulouse Tech Transfer.

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It's a long way from generating an innovative idea to bringing it to market! This year, our Advanced Master® MGPIE students have learned the keys and tools that will enable them to undertake innovative projects in their entirety, in all sectors of activity!

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Advanced Master® MGPIE: Introducing the My-Shell group PIE

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Charlotte Brenac, Julie Aubert and Nicolas Guibal turned their Advanced Master's® MGPIE project (now IEM) into a start-up. ELDA TECHNOLOGY is developing innovative technology to map snow cover in ski areas and thus optimise the production of artificial snow.

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Eloa Guillotin and Hugo Tarlé (S2020) have been awarded the Mayoux-Dauriac prize by the ISAE-SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni Association. The prize is awarded to an engineering student in the final year of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering curriculum for practical achievements during schooling and various internships, in accordance with the wishes of Maurice MAYOUX (S 1924). Eloa and Hugo form a true binomial. They are both engineers from ISAE-SUPAERO (S2020), and have followed the same training path, at the École Polytechnique, HEC Paris and the University of California at Berkeley (USA). They are passionate about space, and launchers in particular. Since they met in their first year, they have also been involved in entrepreneurship, heading up the school's entrepreneurship association and organizing Europe's first space startup weekend in partnership with Airbus Defence and Space, CNES and ESA. During their engineering studies, they set up Attom, a company developing instant recharging products for smartphones. Their project received two notable entrepreneurial awards in Toulouse. Their subsequent career path also taught them the basics of setting up a technology company. Following their Master's degree in X-HEC Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris, and a semester at the University of California at Berkeley, they set up Beyond Aerospace. Eloa takes a long-term view of the goals to be achieved, and her natural organization enables her to set precise, realistic milestones. Her ambition and managerial good humor make her the CEO of Beyond Aerospace. Hugo has strong technical skills, particularly in fluid mechanics and data science. A true do-it-yourselfer, he has built a bi-liquid H2O2/ethanol engine, solid propulsion boosters and experimental rockets in his garden. His rigor and exacting standards make him the CTO of Beyond Aerospace. Their company is part of an economic system they learned about through their Master's thesis supervised by Sandy Tirtey, Launch Director of Rocket Lab - the world's first and only operational commercial micro-launch vehicle to date. Their curiosity and passion for space and technological entrepreneurship, through their technical experiments now applied with Beyond Aerospace and their overall achievements, demonstrate a real industrial and economic interest in the micro-launch vehicle market, which has enabled them to win this prize, the result of their excellence.

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On November 13, 2025, at the Cité de Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO will be taking part in a first-of-its-kind event, the “Occitanie Talent Marketplace”, which will bring together start-ups from the university world in the Occitanie region and talents & skills wishing to take part in an entrepreneurial adventure.

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Romain Buquet has been teaching courses related to innovation and entrepreneurship at ISAE-SUPAERO for two years. And his innovative spirit is reflected in the curriculum! The latest example is Problem Solvers, an entrepreneurial challenge for first-year engineering students.

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“Who wants to be my partner?” at the ISAE-SUPAERO Aérothèque! In the spirit of the M6 TV show, Romain Buquet, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the team from ISAE-SUPAERO's #innovation and #entrepreneurship department organized a first-of-its-kind #businessentrepreneurial event: ⇾ eight “Made in ISAE-SUPAERO” entrepreneurs had the opportunity to pitch their project to a panel of investors: talented Business Angel Stéphanie Delestre (Volubile), Lucie Baillif (Baillif), Pierre Carli (Capitole Angels), Jean-Michel Darroy (Aerospace Angels) and Emma Ribes (IRDI Capital Investissement). To prepare for the exercise, our entrepreneurs had the opportunity to be trained on the mechanics of fund-raising by Aram Attar, the coach of the successful show. With some valuable and benevolent advice: "I have three values in mind that have carried me along: hard work, audacity and courage. If you can do all that, you'll be the best entrepreneurs and the best innovators. So don't give up, because the entrepreneurial life is really worth it!" - Stéphanie Delestre "The only limit is, don't go too far & take care of your psychological well-being" - Aram Attar The start-ups VIRAJ H2, ELDA Technology, TIDAV Aero, EMBRYA, SOLTEO, Nelson Mobility & Allergenius are passionately driven by ISAE-SUPAERO students and researchers in various fields, including low-carbon aviation, snow management in ski resorts, solutions for solar panel installers and electrification of corporate fleets.

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Zero, a startup created by three aerospace engineers and recently incubated by ISAE-SUPAERO, offers a visual positioning system for drones designed to operate in environments without GPS.

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Bastien Fabre, 26 years old, founded his deep tech start-up with his classmate from ISAE-SUPAERO, Nicolas Bourliatoux. Iris Lab is developing innovative technology to recharge drones in flight wirelessly, using optical flow.

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Yves Gourinat is a professor of structural physics in the Structural Mechanics and Materials Department (DMSM) at ISAE-SUPAERO. Already a corresponding member since 2019, he has just been elected a full member of the French Academy of Aeronautics and Space.

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A boot camp organised on Thursday 3 October with numerous players from the world of innovation and defence. An event organised by ISAE-SUPAERO and TTT (Toulouse Tech Transfer). 11 start-ups currently supported by the Lanceur d'Étoiles programme.

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On Friday, 8 December, the Swiss Jean-Jacques and Felicia Lopez-Loreta Foundation for Academic Excellence awarded a prize to Viraj H2, a project developed at ISAE-SUPAERO. Joseph Risson, a third-year engineering student, is studying a hybridisation between a hydrogen turboprop engine and a fuel cell in order to accelerate the decarbonisation of air transport. The €1 million grant will enable Joseph and his partner Paul de Goÿs to validate the technology behind their innovation.

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Alexandre Le Roch, PhD student in the Electronics, Optronics and Signal Department (DEOS) receives the Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO thesis prize for his work on the Analysis of the increase and discrete fluctuation of the dark current of CMOS imagers in space and nuclear radiative environments. Alexandre graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (INSA Rennes) in 2015, and began his thesis at ISAE-SUPAERO in 2017 after a period spent at STMicroelectronics in Singapore. Vincent Goiffon, professor at ISAE-SUPAERO and Cédric Virmontois from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) supervised this thesis, which was carried out with the support of CNES and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA). Her thesis studies the effects of space and nuclear radiation on CMOS image sensors, with the aim of improving space instruments and plasma diagnostics for nuclear fusion. More specifically, the study focuses on radiation-induced crystalline defects responsible for increased dark current. This work is helping to improve our understanding of the physical principles at work in silicon when exposed to radiation. Alexandre is author or co-author of 11 publications. He has presented his work at the RADECS 2017, NSREC 2018, IISW 2019 and NSREC 2019 international conferences. During his thesis, he was the recipient of various awards. These include the Paul Phelps Award from the NPSS chapter of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), as well as the Best Student Paper and Best Paper awards at the RADECS 2019 conference. Alexandre also helped open the IEEE student branch at ISAE-SUPAERO in 2017 and chaired it until 2020. Alexandre Le Roch defended his thesis in July 2020, and currently works as a research engineer at ISAE-SUPAERO in collaboration with CNES. His research activities focus on the radiation resistance of CMOS image sensors for future missions exploring the Jovian system (Jupiter), a very severe radiative environment. He will soon be joining NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to continue this work on the radiation resistance of imaging systems. A thesis prize awarded by the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation for the excellence of the research carried out and the prospects for application of the thesis.

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Bérengère Ferrier, an expert in #innovation #marketing, talks to us about her involvement in the MGPIE Advanced Master's programme! From generating an innovative idea to bringing it to market, there is a whole process involved! This year, our students on the MGPIE Advanced Master's programme learned the keys and tools that will enable them to undertake innovative projects in their entirety in all sectors of activity!

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Paul Planeix (S2020) has been awarded the Mayoux-Dauriac prize by the ISAE-SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni Association. The prize is awarded to an engineering student in the final year of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering curriculum for practical achievements during schooling and various internships, in accordance with the wishes of Maurice MAYOUX (S 1924). Maurice MAYOUX - SUPAERO 1924 (ARTS & MÉTIERS Cluny 1920), who died on September 4, 1997, expressed in his will his wish that, with the proceeds of his estate bequeathed to the Société des Ingénieurs Arts et Métiers, French language prizes for Arts et Métiers students and mechanical engineering prizes for SUPAERO students be created, in association with the name of his wife Jeanne Dauriac. “Annual award of a Prize reserved for the student in the last year of study, whatever his or her speciality, but chosen for his or her knowledge of the whole of General Mathematics and its application in ‘practical’ constructions, constructions to be considered on the whole of their qualities: principle, simplicity, efficiency, probable feasibility, cost price as restricted as possible.” L’Association SUPAERO, désormais ISAE SUPAERO ENSICA Alumni, a donc décidé la création du prix Mayoux-Dauriac Aéronautique destiné à récompenser l’utilisation des connaissances acquises à l’Ecole dans l’exercice d’une des différentes facettes du métier d’ingénieur, les réalisations (projets) étant jugées sur leur utilité pour l’industrie (ou les services) et devant présenter un bilan économique positif. Deux prix ont été attribués en 2020 ! Deuxième Prix 2020 pour un montant de 3000 € remis à Paul Planeix pour le projet de drone « Recherche & Sauvetage » Développement d’un environnement de simulation de vol / contributions aux systèmes de Guidage, Navigation et Contrôle chez Zipline International Paul a réalisé de nombreux projets scientifiques et ceci dans de nombreux domaines au cours de son cursus ingénieur. En effet, membre de l’association CubeSat, il a contribué à la construction d’une maquette à échelle 1 :1 du nanosatellite MONA. Sa scolarité au sein de l’ISAE-SUPAERO lui a aussi permis de qualifier un système de navigation de drone et de s’initier à la recherche via un projet de contrôle d’exosquelette. Ce projet de recherche, basé sur des méthodes de Machine Learning, a été effectué dans le cadre de l’association Enorev’ visant à aider les enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale. Au cours de son double-diplôme au sein de l’université de Stanford, Paul construit un aéronef réalisant un scénario de recherche et sauvetage totalement autonome du décollage à l’atterrissage. Paul then managed to join Zipline, still a young robotics start-up in Silicon Valley. There, he interned with the two-person Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) team. He contributed to the development of a drone simulation environment and GN&C systems. Today, Zipline operates the world's largest and first drone delivery system in Rwanda, Ghana and the USA, providing a solution to the last-mile problem in healthcare. This solution saves lives by maximizing the availability of essential medical products while minimizing waste and guaranteeing the cold chain. Paul continues to contribute to Zipline's mission since 2020 via the skills he acquired as an engineer at ISAE-SUPAERO and Stanford. He received this award for the variety and excellence of his career path and the practical achievements that have led him to evolve in the startup ecosystem. The Mayoux-Dauriac prize is awarded for the use of knowledge acquired at the School in the exercise of one of the various facets of the engineering profession, and for the usefulness of the projects carried out for industry and services with a positive economic balance sheet.

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Convinced that innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, combined with a strong technical culture, are essential levers for addressing today's major challenges, ISAE-SUPAERO is today launching its ‘We spark the future’ label, awarded to start-ups ‘by ISAE-SUPAERO’.

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Our 2025 graduation ceremonies will celebrate excellence and community pride on 6 December 2025, honouring more than 600 graduates from our programmes, accompanied by distinguished guests and numerous prestigious awards.

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A graduate of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering programme, Bertrand Joab-Cornu co-founded Wingly a year before graduating in 2015. This start-up, which brings aviation into the collaborative economy, quickly became the European leader in flight sharing.

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At ISAE-SUPAERO, Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez heads SaCLaB, a research laboratory focusing on future space systems. A professor of space systems engineering, she has just been elected to the French Air and Space Academy.

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Pablo Caron receives the Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO thesis prize for his work on the study of electron-induced singular events in integrated technologies. A graduate of the Technique Spatial et Instrumentation master's program at Université III Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), Pablo Caron prepared his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA), Laurent Artola (ONERA) and Robert Ecoffet (CNES) in ONERA's DPHY (Physics Instrumentation Environment Space Department) in Toulouse. His work, funded by ONERA and CNES, focused on the study of electron-induced singular events in embedded technologies. On-board electronics and, in particular, on-board memories, are sensitive to the radiative environments in which they operate. These sensitivities can take many forms, from the loss of data to the destruction of a component. In 2014, the first measurements of errors (SEU) in an SRAM memory were carried out. Pablo Caron's work is part of this effort to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the errors observed. Pablo Caron is an engineer- Researcher at ONERA Toulouse in the DPHY/ERS unit (Spatial Radiative Environment) whose main missions are the measurement of particles inhabiting radiation belts and the development of models dedicated to the specifying environments associated with future space missions. A thesis prize awarded by the Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO for the excellence of the research carried out and the prospects for application of the thesis.

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In France, 3 million people suffer from food allergies and intolerances. Every day, they face difficulties in eating, shopping and cooking. World Allergy Week, which runs from 24 to 29 June, gives us the opportunity to highlight a promising start-up led by an ISAE-SUPAERO student.

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Thanks to its dynamic approach to innovation, ISAE-SUPAERO is now part of RéSO IP+ (RésO Incubateurs Pépinières +), the network of incubators and business nurseries in the Occitanie region that brings together support and accommodation structures for high-potential entrepreneurs.

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Convinced that innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, combined with a strong technical culture, are essential levers for addressing today's major challenges, ISAE-SUPAERO develops its students' spirit of innovation and supports business creation. The Institute is today launching its ‘We spark the future’ label, awarded to start-ups ‘by ISAE-SUPAERO’. Discover our support and our offer.