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At the beginning of January 2021, Starburst, ONERA, SATT Paris-Saclay and Polytechnique joined forces to launch BLAST, the first French incubation programme designed for deep tech companies in our sector.

For 10 years now, ONERA has been fulfilling its mission of transferring its research on intelligent systems to the French military operational landscape. Today, the tools have evolved and allow the construction of a decision-making architecture with a distribution of the decision between the command systems and the drones.

Marie-José Martinez, Engineer-General Second Class, joined ONERA on May 3rd as Wind Tunnels director. She was previously director of the DGA propellant test centre. She succeeds Patrick Wagner, with whom she will be working closely until his retirement. A look back at a brilliant career with a predominant aeronautical and international focus.

Pierre Touboul was a researcher at ONERA, specialist in space physics. Internationally recognized, his research had led to the creation of unique world-class devices for measuring gravity and acceleration in space. Pierre passed away on Monday 15th of February.

Starburst, ONERA, and SATT Paris-Saclay and Polytechnique are joining forces with BLAST: the first French incubation programme dedicated to deep tech companies in our sector.

The COVID crisis has put a strain on stakeholders in the aeronautics sector. To revive the industry, the government announced the 2035 ‘clean sky’ objective. ONERA, which has the mission of preparing the aerospace technologies of tomorrow, had anticipated this by devoting a great deal of research to reducing the environmental impact of aircraft. Focus no. 1 on ONERA's work on new forms of propulsion.

Defense research projects of tomorrow, new aircraft configurations for greener and safer aviation, space technologies: find out about all this and more in the ONERA 2019 Annual Report.

On 22 and 23 April, the kick-off event for the German-French cooperation between DLR and ONERA for the joint virtual research center "AI4Aerospace Engineering" took place. The cooperation between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (ONERA) had its beginning last year at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget. The goal is a German-French "virtual" AI research center for aerospace.

In the context of increasing interest for airships, ONERA conduct researches on one of the most sensitive and crucial issues for these vehicles: the dynamic behaviour in turbulent atmosphere and in gusts, including when flying at low altitude.