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Space environment specialists have introduced innovations in the analysis of electrostatic discharge propagation on full-scale panels. 

A campaign for the spectral reflectance measurement of a salt lake in Central Anatolia was conducted in 2010. Many countries were involved. 

Jean-Pierre Cariou, lidar specialist, who left Onera in 2007 to join the SME Leosphere, has been awarded with the Chéreau-Lavet 2010 Engineer-Inventor prize.

The Matmeca project, supported by Onera with Mines ParisTech, ENS-LMT-Cachan, Centrale Paris and the Polytechnique as partners, has been selected for the Equipex "Excellence Equipment" call for projects, and has been awarded 4.5 million €. 

Thierry Michal, General Technical Director. Emmanuel Rosencher, General Scientific Director. Patrick Wagner, Computing, Engineering and Testing Facilities Director.

ONERA’s cophasing system installed at the Meudon observatory validates future spectral analyses designed to reveal conditions suitable for life in the universe. Its performance is currently the best in the world and consolidates ONERA’s leadership in high angular resolution instrumentation.

When he was an optics research engineer at Onera, Didier Rabaud had the opportunity to take part in the NAOS project for the Very Large Telescope in Chile. After this success, he decided to create his own SME, a service provider for companies in the field of new optronics technologies. Born in 2001, Shaktiware has been able to develop and diversify its activities without ever losing contact with Onera. A look at a fruitful partnership.

A better understanding of the formation of ice on aircraft, helping the aircraft builders to prove that their aircraft can cope, and eliminating the most dangerous ice: these are the objectives of Sunset, a joint research project between Onera and Nasa.

Will mass air travel still exist in 40 years? What breakthrough technologies are in the pipeline? Will aviation offer an alternative to private cars? Where should we focus our research investments? Onera, the leading aerospace research organization in France, formed a multidisciplinary task force to study the technological and organizational decisions needed to ensure a viable air transport system in 2050. The resulting study, entitled “Research paths for a viable air transport industry in 2050”, lays the groundwork for a long-term analysis and also identifies the priority research objectives.