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In orbit since April, Microscope (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l’Observation du Principe d’Équivalence) is pursuing functional tests before its scheduled switch to mission mode at the end of the year. Teams at CNES and the French aerospace research agency ONERA are currently gearing up for the science phase of the mission with the first ultra-precise measurements acquired by the satellite.

CNES’s Microscope satellite with ONERA’s instrument T-SAGE, has begun the long science phase of its mission after successfully completing in-orbit checkout, during which it has already achieved very promising results.

The special issue of the international journal "Materials at High Temperature" with the title "High Temperature Materials for Aerospace Applications" has just been published. The book, co-edited by ONERA, NASA and Georgia Tech, contains four articles by ONERA researchers; this is the strongest representation.

On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, ONERA will be celebrating aerospace research from September 17 to December 11 through a dedicated exhibition. The goal: to show and explain its full contribution to some of the greatest aeronautics and space achievements, as well as its know-how to prepare the future.

The 11th issue of AerospaceLab Journal, the ONERA International Journal, is on line. This issue of AerospaceLab gives the reader an overview of this activity around combustion, ranging from experimental to theoretical and numerical work.

Paris, September 7 2016 - Sogeti France, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capgemini Group, is managing an infrastructure outsourcing contract with ONERA1, the leading aeronautics and space research organisation in France, and assisting in the modernisation and security of its information systems. The four-year project, with the possibility of extending it for one year, is worth close to 10 million euros.

ONERA and the SME ANDHEO have received an award for the design and implementation of an aerothermal simulation method for the hot parts of aircraft engines. Its outstanding performance enables analysis by calculating thermal phenomena throughout the entire flight, thereby attracting great industrial interest.

On Monday 20 June, at DCNS's headquarters in Paris, Hervé Guillou, Chairman and CEO of DCNS, and Bruno Sainjon, Chairman and CEO of ONERA, signed a framework agreement aimed at developing their synergies and proposing joint R&D projects in the naval and maritime domains, including weapon systems of the future.

At the end of 2015, the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) launched the challenge "Sky for All: Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond". The objective was to envision the skies of 2035 and design a system that allows vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently in a dense and diverse airspace.