Monday 30 March, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Bruno Sainjon, Chairman & CEO of ONERA, the French aeronautics, space and defence research laboratory, signed a new framework agreement at ONERA’s head office in Palaiseau through which the two agencies will step up their science and technology cooperation.

The Licorne lidar integration platform, equipped with a new generation fibre laser source, measured the wind speed during a strong wind episode with a 12 km range (maximum range of 16 km - world record held by this same platform)

At the time of the first firing of the POD-Y demonstrator for the future Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers, ONERA was able to gather unsteady pressure data with a precision of a few mbar.

A year after the GOCE satellite (ESA) had finished its mission in the atmosphere, scientists have revealed the progress made in the understanding of ocean currents.

In partnership with the DLR, ONERA organised the 4th symposium on aircraft design collaboration in Toulouse. Researchers, academics and industrialists were able to discuss and launch initiatives.

ONERA?s teams have achieved an active gust load control demonstration in the S3Ch transonic wind tunnel in Meudon. This is the result of years of work within the context of the European project Clean Sky JTI Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft.""

ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab and SNCF Réseau have announced the signing of a research partnership dedicated to the design of drone solutions for monitoring the rail network.

The construction of the E-ELT, a revolutionary 40m class telescope was launched by the European Southern Observatory in December 2014. ONERA is at the core of the achievement of the first adaptive optics instruments for the telescope and its advanced instrumentation.

The 8th issue of AerospaceLab, the ONERA International Journal, is on line and is devoted to Aerial robotics. See www.aerospacelab-journal.org""