Site Index

Space and defense research lab

Space and defense research lab

  • 1 ONERA at the Paris Air Show: together with its partners

    Jointly with the Chiefs of Staff, industry and research, the DGA ensures consistency between defense tools and long term strategic ambitions... The Paris Air Lab gives ONERA the opportunity to present its vision of the future of aeronautics and space, in two strategic sectors... The research on this new compound opens up a promising alternative to the propellant currently used, hydrazine, which is at risk of soon being banned from space due to its toxicity
  • 2 1963 à 1983 - The expansion

    Aeronautical missions; it became the French Aerospace Lab, Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales in 1963. The Toulouse Centre for Studies and Research, Centre d'Études et de Recherche de Toulouse (CERT) became part of ONERA in 1968, endowing ONERA with new expertise in aerothermodynamics, mechanics and system energetics, automation, IT, optics, microwave technology and space technology
  • 3 Which role Research & Technology must play to ensure France's continued stance as a major aerospace power ?

    On September 8 and 9, ONERA participate in the Summer Defense Conference, with Chairman and CEO Bruno Sainjon taking advantage of this opportunity to discuss the role that Research & Technology must play to ensure France's continued stance as a major aerospace power... Thirdly, it is a highly paradoxical situation for ONERA to have only this single guaranteed source of funds, from defense, when both national (National Research Agency funding, for instance) and European rules mandate that an organization such as ONERA self finance part of the civil research relevant to these agencies