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Stéphane Andrieux has been appointed Chief Science Officer of ONERA. He succeeds Emmanuel Rosencher, who died in May 2013, and Pierre Touboul, who served as interim until his arrival.

ONERA?s CFD specialists participated in a workshop organised in the United States by NASA. The results obtained confirm that ONERA is in the lead worldwide in methods for unsteady aerodynamics.

Monday 30 March, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Bruno Sainjon, Chairman & CEO of ONERA, the French aeronautics, space and defence research laboratory, signed a new framework agreement at ONERA’s head office in Palaiseau through which the two agencies will step up their science and technology cooperation.

The Licorne lidar integration platform, equipped with a new generation fibre laser source, measured the wind speed during a strong wind episode with a 12 km range (maximum range of 16 km - world record held by this same platform)

At the time of the first firing of the POD-Y demonstrator for the future Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers, ONERA was able to gather unsteady pressure data with a precision of a few mbar.

A year after the GOCE satellite (ESA) had finished its mission in the atmosphere, scientists have revealed the progress made in the understanding of ocean currents.

In partnership with the DLR, ONERA organised the 4th symposium on aircraft design collaboration in Toulouse. Researchers, academics and industrialists were able to discuss and launch initiatives.

ONERA?s teams have achieved an active gust load control demonstration in the S3Ch transonic wind tunnel in Meudon. This is the result of years of work within the context of the European project Clean Sky JTI Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft.""

ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab and SNCF Réseau have announced the signing of a research partnership dedicated to the design of drone solutions for monitoring the rail network.