The 11th issue of AerospaceLab Journal, the ONERA International Journal, is on line. This issue of AerospaceLab gives the reader an overview of this activity around combustion, ranging from experimental to theoretical and numerical work.

Paris, September 7 2016 - Sogeti France, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capgemini Group, is managing an infrastructure outsourcing contract with ONERA1, the leading aeronautics and space research organisation in France, and assisting in the modernisation and security of its information systems. The four-year project, with the possibility of extending it for one year, is worth close to 10 million euros.

ONERA and the SME ANDHEO have received an award for the design and implementation of an aerothermal simulation method for the hot parts of aircraft engines. Its outstanding performance enables analysis by calculating thermal phenomena throughout the entire flight, thereby attracting great industrial interest.

On Monday 20 June, at DCNS's headquarters in Paris, Hervé Guillou, Chairman and CEO of DCNS, and Bruno Sainjon, Chairman and CEO of ONERA, signed a framework agreement aimed at developing their synergies and proposing joint R&D projects in the naval and maritime domains, including weapon systems of the future.

At the end of 2015, the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) launched the challenge "Sky for All: Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond". The objective was to envision the skies of 2035 and design a system that allows vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently in a dense and diverse airspace.

The Mach number test envelope of the ONERA S2MA transonic and supersonic wind tunnel will soon be continuous up to Mach number 3,1.

During the launch of ExoMars ESA mission on 14 March, ABISS radar breadboard developed by ONERA has been operated to confirm the progress of the martian mission with the successful passage of the launcher on its transfer orbit.

On 10 March 2016, the Association of the European Space Research Establishments ? ESRE ? was formally established as an International Organisation (AISBL). ESRE gathers the leading space research centers of CIRA (Italy), DLR (Germany), INTA (Spain), NLR (Netherlands) and ONERA (France).

World first. ONERA and the SHOM* have accomplished two gravity mapping campaigns off the coast of Brest. The atomic gravimeter designed and built at ONERA for marine use, provides an absolute measurement of the local gravity "g" with remarkable precision.