Starburst, ONERA, and SATT Paris-Saclay and Polytechnique are joining forces with BLAST: the first French incubation programme dedicated to deep tech companies in our sector.

The COVID crisis has put a strain on stakeholders in the aeronautics sector. To revive the industry, the government announced the 2035 ‘clean sky’ objective. ONERA, which has the mission of preparing the aerospace technologies of tomorrow, had anticipated this by devoting a great deal of research to reducing the environmental impact of aircraft. Focus no. 1 on ONERA's work on new forms of propulsion.

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.

Since October 2019, the Modane-Avrieux wind tunnels, one of ONERA's crown jewels, have a new director. Known and recognised throughout Europe, and indeed internationally, they have been the testing ground for some of the aeronautical industry's most celebrated creations, with the precision of these installations and the very high level of technical expertise of their personnel allowing concepts to be tested under optimal conditions.

Aerospace research center ONERA joins the ArianeWorks acceleration and innovation platform.
ArianeWorks was set up in February 2019 by the French space agency CNES and ArianeGroup in order to boost innovation for the development of future European launchers

On 17 June 2019, during the 53rd Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, echoing the bilateral friendship treaty on cooperation and integration signed between Germany and France in January 2019, Bruno Sainjon, CEO of ONERA, signed together with DLR an agreement on their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Over time, this cooperation could be used as a basis to establish a ‘virtual’ Franco-German AI research centre for the European aerospace sector.

On June 18th, 2019 during the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, an agreement for trilateral cooperation on rotorcraft between ONERA, JAXA and DLR was signed.