Onera (Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales) is the French national aerospace research center. It is a public research establishment, with eight major facilities in France and about 2,000 employees, including 1,500 scientists, engineers and technicians.

 

All of this research is keyed to applications. Whether the research has short, medium or long-term goals, it is designed to support the competitiveness and creativity of the aerospace and defense industries. The research carried out at Onera results in computation codes, methods, tools, technologies, materials and other products and services which are used to design and manufacture everything to do with aerospace:

 

    * Civil aircraft

    * Military aircraft

    * Helicopters and tiltrotors

    * Propulsion systems

    * Orbital systems

    * Space transport

    * Missile systems

    * Defense systems

    * Networked systems and security systems