Jean-Pierre Cariou, lidar specialist, who left Onera in 2007 to join the SME Leosphere, has been awarded with the Chéreau-Lavet 2010 Engineer-Inventor prize.
The Matmeca project, supported by Onera with Mines ParisTech, ENS-LMT-Cachan, Centrale Paris and the Polytechnique as partners, has been selected for the Equipex "Excellence Equipment" call for projects, and has been awarded 4.5 million €.
Thierry Michal, General Technical Director.
Emmanuel Rosencher, General Scientific Director.
Patrick Wagner, Computing, Engineering and Testing Facilities Director.
ONERA’s cophasing system installed at the Meudon observatory validates future spectral analyses designed to reveal conditions suitable for life in the universe. Its performance is currently the best in the world and consolidates ONERA’s leadership in high angular resolution instrumentation.
When he was an optics research engineer at Onera, Didier Rabaud had the opportunity to take part in the NAOS project for the Very Large Telescope in Chile. After this success, he decided to create his own SME, a service provider for companies in the field of new optronics technologies. Born in 2001, Shaktiware has been able to develop and diversify its activities without ever losing contact with Onera. A look at a fruitful partnership.
A better understanding of the formation of ice on aircraft, helping the aircraft builders to prove that their aircraft can cope, and eliminating the most dangerous ice: these are the objectives of Sunset, a joint research project between Onera and Nasa.
Will mass air travel still exist in 40 years? What breakthrough technologies are
in the pipeline? Will aviation offer an alternative to private cars? Where should
we focus our research investments? Onera, the leading aerospace research
organization in France, formed a multidisciplinary task force to study the
technological and organizational decisions needed to ensure a viable air
transport system in 2050. The resulting study, entitled “Research paths for a
viable air transport industry in 2050”, lays the groundwork for a long-term
analysis and also identifies the priority research objectives.
Graphene, a sheet of carbon an atom thick, has recently been recognized by the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics. Annick Loiseau reviews the research at Onera on this revolutionary material.
To render the air movements visible the flow in the wind tunnel has been seeded with very fine submicronic particles, and illuminated by a laser light sheet. These particles follow the stream lines of the vortex, and scatter the laser light reaching the camera.
This image was obtained while developing the Doppler Global Velocimetry technique (DGV). DGV can be used to establish the flow velocity at all points of the zone illuminated by the laser and to draw a map (see below).
