During the 2024's quinquennial scientific roadmap of CNES, a specific group worked on setting recommendations to decrease the environmental footprint of space science activities. This correspondence to Nature Astronomy highlights the efforts of the french space research to move towards sustainability. It relies on two complementary methods: decarbonisation and frugality.
@article{arxiv.2503.16495,
title = {Towards sustainable space research in France},
author = {Alexandre Santerne and Héloïse Meheut and Didier Barret and Olivier Berné and Etienne Berthier and Agnès Ducharne and Jürgen Knödlseder and Aurélie Marchaudon and Thierry Pellarin and Aymeric Spiga and Peter Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16495},
year = {2025}
}
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Published as a correspondence to Nature Astronomy. Full-text available at https://rdcu.be/ecSNp