ISAE-SUPAERO ANNUAL REPORT 2022 23 nvironmental issues are at the heart of the Research and Educational Resources Division’s strategy. Several projects pursued or launched in 2022 reflect this commitment, starting with ISAE-SUPAERO’s strong involvement in the Institute for Sustainable Aviation, a collaborative research structure under the governance of eight Toulouse institutions (ISAE-SUPAERO, TSE, UT1C, ENAC, TBS, Météo-France, CERFACS and UT2J). Moreover, the Institute worked in 2022 to enrich the CAST (Climate and Aviation - Sustainable Trajectories) aviation climate simulation and assessment tool, which evaluates different development scenarios for aviation and assesses their compatibility with the objectives of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The enhanced version of the tool will be released in the first half of 2023. The Aviation & Climate reference guide, a scientific report produced by ISAE-SUPAERO researchers to help understand the challenges of decarbonizing air transport, has been translated into English and widely distributed to various stakeholders. The “Mermoz Drone” project, which flies without CO2 emissions, also continued its development in 2022. A first successful hydrogen gas flight took place on January 20, 2023. The year 2022 also saw some great successes in the space field. ISAE-SUPAERO researchers participated in the international DART project, which collided with the Dimorphos asteroid in September 2022 for a full-scale test of a planetary defense system against celestial bodies that could cross the Earth’s orbit. The use of data from the InSight and Perseverance Mars missions continued. An ESA_Lab was signed on the theme of sustainable and responsible space exploration, and the Institute signed with Airbus Defense and Space and Arianegroup the renewal of the SACLAB2 research chair, on advanced space concepts, for a period of 5 years. Phase 2 of the CONCORDE project with ONERA, which begins in 2023, will further strengthen collaboration between the two institutions on the theme of “Design, certification, operation of future aerospace systems”. The team “Conception d’Imageurs Intégrés” (CIMI - Integrated Imager Design) is working on the extension to the infrared domain of the optical sensors it develops using CMOS technology. And finally, three new participations in European projects have also marked 2022, to be found on page 26. E Search “Several projects being pursued or launched in 2022 reflect a strong commitment to the design of sustainable aviation.“ Grégoire Casalis Director of the Research and Educational Resources Division (DRRP) THE P I L LAR
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