ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab

Pierre Touboul was a researcher at ONERA, specialist in space physics. Internationally recognized, his research had led to the creation of unique world-class devices for measuring gravity and acceleration in space. Pierre passed away on Monday 15th of February.

Defense research projects of tomorrow, new aircraft configurations for greener and safer aviation, space technologies: find out about all this and more in the ONERA 2019 Annual Report.

On 22 and 23 April, the kick-off event for the German-French cooperation between DLR and ONERA for the joint virtual research center "AI4Aerospace Engineering" took place. The cooperation between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (ONERA) had its beginning last year at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget. The goal is a German-French "virtual" AI research center for aerospace.

In the context of increasing interest for airships, ONERA conduct researches on one of the most sensitive and crucial issues for these vehicles: the dynamic behaviour in turbulent atmosphere and in gusts, including when flying at low altitude.