Guy Lebègue
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| Guy Lebègue | |
| Born | 28 October 1938 Maubeuge, France |
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| Residence |  FR |
| Citizenship | Cannes |
| Nationality | Francen |
| Fields | Engineer and Science journalist |
| Institutions | Cannes Mandelieu Space Center |
| Alma mater | École centrale Paris École nationale de l'aviation civile |
| Known for | Inventor of the name Spacebus |
Guy Lebègue, is a French engineer in the space domain, graduated from École centrale Paris, alumni 1962.
He is the inventor of the name Spacebus, the largest series of European communications satellite saled all over the world, with a total business revenue over 6 G€ (2007).
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[edit] Short Biography
During his 18 months conscription period, in the French Air Force, as Officer, he was graduated as Air traffic controller, at École nationale de l'aviation civile, al. 1963. Then he was responsible of the BA 120 Cazaux airbase's Control tower in 1963.
Then he joigned Sud-Aviation in 1964, the largest French Aerospace industry, where He worked at the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center for its whole career. The company evoluted successively to Aerospatiale in 1970, then Alcatel Space in 1998. He retired in 1999.
He worked firstly as a scientist on the Meteosat program as Image quality responsible. Then he moved to Marketing, and finally Public Relations.
[edit] Inventor of the Spacebus name
When in the Satellites Marketing department, and as a result of a brainstorming competition between the French Aerospatiale and the German MBB Engineers, he invented, August 23, 1983[1] the name Spacebus for the communication satellites series. He thought about this name by analogy with Airbus, whose name was proposed by Roger Béteille, Mister Airbus, which was his chief in Cannes, few years ago.
A Franco-German Spacebus agreement, was signed on December 9, 1983[2] between Henri Martre, Aerospatiale's President, and Hans Vogels, MBB's President. The Trademark is registred[3], becoming the name of a product saled on a large international market.
[edit] Journalist
When in the Public relations department of Aerospatiale Satellite Division, he was a journalist, permanent correspondent for the Revue aerospatiale, most of them published in French and in English.
[edit] Publications
Among dozens of articles published during ten years, quote:
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Turksat: a turnkey satellite », in Revue aerospatiale, n°72, October 1990.
- (French) (English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Eutelsat II: OK For West-to-East Service! », in Revue aerospatiale, n°73, November 1990.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Huygens Space probe: A Seven-Year journey! », in Revue aerospatiale, n°76, March 1991.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Gulf War : Military satellites, the Lesson », in Revue aerospatiale, n°79, June 1991.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Satellites: 30 Years of Franco-German Cooperation », in Revue aerospatiale, n°89, June 1992.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Envisat-1: Going Green! », in Revue aerospatiale, n°95, February 1993.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Spacebus 3000: A Platform for 'Satellite Alliance' », in Revue aerospatiale, n°99, June 1993.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Arabasat 2: New generation, New Services », in Revue aerospatiale, n°100, January 1993.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Globalstar Mobile Telephony: Planetwide within three Years », in Revue aerospatiale, n°115, February 1995.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Helios: The orbiting Spyglass », in Revue aerospatiale, n°118, May 1995.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « ISO: Capturing the Unseen », in Revue aerospatiale, n°118, May 1995.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Spacebus 3000: Emulating Aircraft line production », inRevue aerospatiale, n°124, January 1996.
- (French)(English) Guy Lebègue, (trad. Robert J. Amral), « Arabasat 2A: the new generation of Spacebus 3000 », in Revue aerospatiale, n°130, July 1996.
[edit] Speaker
He prononced many conferences on satellites, mainly in France, but also in Amman, Jordan, when the first Arabsat satellite was launched. Large shows were organised by the French ambassy[4], at Faculté des Sciences de l'Université[5], at Institut Royal Géographique and at Centre culturel français[6], Amman[7], Jordan, February 1985.
[edit] Distinctions
Guy Lebègue is graduated Senior from the Association aéronautique et astronautique de France
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Guy Lebègue, Nom générique pour la famille de plate-formes MBB-AS : Spacebus, 23/08/1983, archives Aerospatiale/Cannes et archives personnelles Guy Lebègue
- ^ Pierre Madon, « Satellites de télécommunications : demain les Spacebus - signature accord franco-allemand », dans Revue aerospatiale, N° 6, February 1984
- ^ INPI:fiche Spacebus
- ^ Annonce des manifestations, French ambassy in Jordan
- ^ Reportage in Saout Acha'B, 6 February 1985
- ^ Jordan Times, Reportage, Fébruary 3, 1985
- ^ Thanks to Guy Lebègue, French ambassy en Jordanie
