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On November 13, 2026, at 8:55 pm (UTC), the New Glenn 2 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, Florida), carrying the two satellites of the ESCAPADE mission to Mars (PI: Rob Lillis, UC Berkeley). This spectacular launch, during...

October 21, 2025 - 8:30pm to 10:00pm Cinéma Le Majetic Passy, 18 Rue de Passy, 75016, Paris France A 45-minute documentary in English with French subtitles, preceded by a presentation in the presence of the director and some members of the mission...

A key event dedicated to promoting scientific knowledge to the general public, the Science Festival will take place this year in France from October 3 to 13, 2025. For this 34th edition, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research has chosen to explore...

The Innovators’ Prize 2025 of the Île-de-France Region was awarded to Thierry Dufour, Associate Professor at LPP, who received second place for his work on the development of a cold plasma endoscopic catheter designed for the local treatment of digestive...

Zhan Shu defended his PhD "Absolute calibration and quantification of atomic oxygen in nanosecond plasmas using two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence" On September 19, 2025, Zhan Shu defended his PhD "Absolute calibration and quantification of...

Methyl radicals (CH₃), which are highly reactive and therefore difficult to quantify, nevertheless play a central role in discharges involving hydrocarbons. In collaboration with Nelson de Oliveira from the SOLEIL synchrotron, the gas-plasma conversion...

Alejandro Alvarez Laguna, CNRS researcher at LPP is awarded an ERC Starting grant. The Starting Grants are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for a maximum budget of 1.5 million Euros and a duration of 5 years to early-career researchers that...

After her Ph.D at LPP in the Space Plasmas team with Fouad Sahraoui and Sébastien Galtier from 2020 to 2023, Pauline Simon has carried out a two-year postdoc at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Queen Mary University of London (UK). Her work...

Interactions between energetic electron beams and solar wind plasmas are at the origin of various processes of turbulent waves’ transformations and electromagnetic radiation during solar radio bursts of types II and III. The properties of electrostatic...

The second edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, organized by EUR PLASMAScience, took place from June 22 to 28 on the island of Porquerolles (France), centered on the theme “Plasmas for Society”, with a particular focus on low-temperature plasmas...

A comprehensive topical review has just been recently published in special issue of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics , focusing on emerging in situ and time-resolved diagnostic methods to study the interaction of non-thermal atmospheric pressure...

LPP organized the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission 10th anniversary, 11th MMS Community workshop, at the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus of Sorbonne Université in Paris between 12th and 14th of May 2025. MMS mission is constituted of 4 identical...