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ATLAS project collaborates with high school students from the OSE L’ISAE-SUPAERO program
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Supported by the Foundation for the realization of their project last February, the ATLAS project team worked in collaboration with high school students from the Cordée de la réussite OSE L’ISAE-SUPAERO.
Thanks to this exchange, the students were able to travel to Bordeaux and visit 2 aerospace-related companies: Hyperspace and Novespace, which will enable the Project Atlas team to take a weightless flight to test their project next October!
We’ll explain.
The ATLAS project:
Selected by the French space agency CNES to take part in its next weightlessness flight campaign in October 2025, this isan innovative, multidisciplinary project designed to improve space surgery techniques.
The complexity of the ATLAS project lies in finding a way to contain abdominal organs in the abdominal cavity to facilitate midline laparotomy sutures in weightlessness. Their aim is to propose a method for simplifying these surgical procedures in weightlessness.
As part of the Cordée de la Réussite OSE L’ISAE-SUPAERO program, students in the first year of their vocational baccalaureate, MP3D (3D Modeling and Prototyping), at the Lycée Charles Renouvier in Prades, were able to work with the ATLAS project team this year.
The ATLAS team visited the Lycée Charles Renouvier, in Prades, to meet the students and discover the premises. The team then drew up specifications so that they could conceptualize parts and print them with their 3D printer to hold organs inside the body during surgery in a zero-gravity situation.
The ATLAS project experiment will be tested in weightlessness during a Zero-G flight at Novespace next October. It was in this context that the high-school students had the chance to visit the Novespace premises, and above all the zero-gravity aircraft used for the weightlessness simulations. Thomas Paris, flight engineer, took them on a tour of the aircraft. The students also met European researchers and a British astronaut who would be flying out the following week.
See you in October to follow the ATLAS team’s flight tests!