From 25 May to 8 June 2020, Nexter Munitions carried out two major test campaigns of the KATANA ammunition in the S3MA wind tunnel at ONERA's Modane site.

The European Commission selects IMOTHEP project led by ONERA to study hybrid electric propulsion

Tuesday 10 December – The AI4GEO project to develop an automatic solution for producing 3D geospatial information, in which €30 million is to be invested over four years, is receiving €13.5 million in funding from the government’s PIA future investment programme led by the Secretariat General for

• 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

The 2019 edition of the Paris Air Show has been an opportunity for ONERA to meet with its international partners and to sign many scientific or technological research agreements: bilateral cooperation agreements or agreements within European associations. A look back at an eventful week.

The 2018 results of ONERA showed a net income of €2.6 million for a budget of €236 million. Order taking amounted to €126 million, up compared to 2017 (€113 million). The share of order intake from clients outside France is up significantly, to €30.4 million (€24.1 million in 2017)

Dans une continuité de l’accord signé en mai 2016, Naval Group et l’ONERA ont décidé de renforcer leur coopération dans le domaine du développement de l’autonomie décisionnelle contrôlée des drones navals.

As announced by the Armed Forces Minister, Florence Parly, on her visit to Palaiseau on 10 January, the European Investment Bank (EIB) will grant ONERA a €47 million loan for modernising its fleet of wind tunnels, the biggest in Europe.

On 30 January 2019, ONERA and FLYING WHALES completed the wind tunnel test campaign in Lille of a 1/150-scale version of the LCA60T from FLYING WHALES. The results of these tests will make a valuable contribution to the generation of the aerodynamic model of this heavy-load airship

Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), a major player in the satellite, space exploration and orbital infrastructure market, and ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales), the French national aerospace research center, have signed an

A joint team from the French aerospace research center ONERA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) performed the ground vibration testing (GVT) of the new Airbus Beluga XL large transport aircraft

Measurements of the equivalence principle had not been improved upon for 10 years, but now the first results from CNES’s Microscope satellite, equipped with accelerometers supplied by the French aerospace research agency ONERA, are 10 times better.