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![Total and ONERA sign major research contract for airborne remote sensing](/sites/default/files/styles/liste/public/actualites/2017-07/logos-onera-total-bg.jpg?itok=SfPJSz3G)
Total and ONERA today signed a large-scale research and innovation partnership agreement, spanning five years and budgeted at 30 million euros. This partnership aims to adapt or develop remote sensing technologies for use in oil and gas exploration, security and environmental protection applications.
![A First: The Mapping of Aircraft Engine Exhaust Emissions](/sites/default/files/styles/liste/public/actualites/2017-07/MERMOSE-icon.jpg?itok=2sXTgOMQ)
In order to better understand the link between aeronautical fine-particle emissions and the formation of condensation trails in aircraft wakes, ONERA has implemented, together with Snecma, the MERMOSE test campaign to finely characterize gaseous chemical species and particulate matter emissions of a complete aircraft engine.
![The earth in all its glory, seen from the sky using the SIELETERS instrument](/sites/default/files/styles/liste/public/actualites/2017-07/sieleters-accueil.jpg?itok=TKMRwZXs)
Onera has designed and developed Sieleters, an instrument intended to be an airborne infrared hyperspectral imagery benchmark. The first images obtained with it, which are of excellent quality, will undoubtedly achieve this goal.
![An important step to test the equivalence principle on an atomic scale](/sites/default/files/styles/liste/public/actualites/2017-07/alexis-bonnin-gravimetre-250x202.jpg?itok=jIqnNpGX)
Onera, already recognized as an expert in the spatial macroscopic measurement of the equivalence principle (MICROSCOPE) has just made an important advancement in terms of atomic scale measurement to test this cornerstone of physics.
![GOCE mission: Onera accelerometers measured the drag force up to the end](/sites/default/files/styles/liste/public/actualites/2017-07/trainee-goce.jpg?itok=rnDObaJc)
The GOCE satellite?s mission (2009-2013) lasted two years longer than expected, collecting exceptionally accurate data about Earth?s gravity. Onera?s accelerometers also made it possible to learn more about the upper atmosphere, up to the end.