Inflight insights
Sustainable aviation
A French Aerospace Consortium Launches an Initiative to Develop Hybrid-Electric Propulsion for General Aviation
Four major French aerospace companies announced an ambitious collaborative research project to study and define a hybrid-electric propulsion architecture for light aircraft with optimized propeller efficiency, which is aligned with decarbonization goals set by the French Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) and the country’s CORAC civil aeronautics research council.


Technical progress
Integration and testing of a major part of our scale-1 flying prototype
As you may have seen recently our Muret building is taking more and more importance as the place where we receive, test and validate the parts of our Atea full-scale prototype.

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Visit to the DGAC and the Sustainable Aviation Observatory
For this 4th territorial gathering for the aviation decarbonization, both DGAC & the OAD visited Ascendance’s premises in Muret and got a full tour of our test benches including the full-scale integration bench, physically representative of our hybrid electric aircraft propulsion system (Sterna).

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Ascendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Jean-Christophe Lambert is part of La French Tech delegation going this week to the World Economic Forum

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A very rich 2023
As the year draws to a close, we're taking a moment to celebrate the incredible journey we've had.

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Ascendance joins the mapping of French impact startups 2023 by Bpifrance Le Hub, France Digitale and Mouvement Impact France
As one of 1,142 startups, Ascendance is propelling French technology towards a revolution in decarbonized aviation!

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2 years of Plan France 2030, with Emmanuel Macron's visit to Toulouse
During a visit in Toulouse, in Airbus factory, President Emmanuel Macron Macron reiterated his commitment to propel the transformation of key sectors in the French economy.

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Ascendance wins Les Trophées de l'Immatériel
Ascendance proudly takes home the trophy in the "Start-up with Impact" category at the Trophées de l'Immatériel, courtesy of Bpifrance.

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Ascendance signs a key partnership in the United Arab Emirates
We thought a sum up of the Dubai Air Show’s big moments was necessary as we had quite an intense event

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The new Atea video finally revealed
We’ve kept our new video hidden to reveal it at the Dubai Air Show last week.We are now happy to unveil it to further present our evtol Atea

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Atea routes
We are talking about Regional Air Mobility, but what are the routes that Atea will fly?

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Atea in action
Decentralized aviation, helicopter alternative, regional mobility… Atea is capable of many things.

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How Atea, our hybrid vtol, will be used?
Atea is an innovative aircraft meant to reduce the carbon footprint of the helicopter market and provide a sustainable and practical answer to link some destinations that are still hard to reach today. But how do we plan to do that?