Dr. Alexis PAILLET

CNES

Alexis PAILLET is Head of the Spaceship FR Project and in charge of the technologies for exploration at the Center National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Toulouse. He is an Aeronautic and Space engineer from Supaero in Toulouse, France and PhD in Planetary study.
Alexis joined the French space agency in 2005 to work in the development, assembly and testing of space instruments intended in particular for the robotic exploration of the planet Mars (ChemCam on board the Curiosity rover and the main seismometer of the Martian lander Insight).
Since 2019, Alexis has been Head of the Spaceship FR project, which aims to prepare human SpaceFlight and robotic space exploration, by validating, promoting French technologies on Earth, deploying them on test bases in order to begin exploration of the Moon and to export the model to the planet Mars.This project is a laboratory of ideas and demonstration of technologies at the service of a future lunar base, which is being prepared under the impetus of the American program Artemis.