A special prize from the European Space Agency (ESA) was given to Sébastien Deck, a CFD specialistatOnera, for his contribution to the understanding of flows around launcher afterbodies. Sébastien Deck received his prize at the 7th European conference on aerothermodynamics for space transport held in Bruges from May 9th to May 12th
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... Jean Pierre Cariou, former researcher at the Theoretical and Applied Optics department atOnera (1984 to 2007), has become Director of Research and Development at Leosphere, one of the PME partners of Onera, specializing in the study of the atmosphere using lidar technology: the monitoring of high atmosphere pollution, meteorological measurement of clouds, wind, humidity, improving airport traffic flows, research into climate change, etc