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The engineer stood next to an engine test bench at the center\u2019s facilities at Palaiseau, just outside the capital. The test bench is the more recent of two which <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">have been <\/span>were\u00a0used for work on the airborne missile for a nuclear warhead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The new generation is typically further, higher, faster. Faster is up to eight times the speed of sound, or Mach 8. 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The test bench seeks to replicate the hypersonic missile flying from Mach 6 to 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept engine would burn just one fuel, liquid hydrogen, to leave the atmosphere rather than liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and solid propellant as carried on the present Ariane five rocket. A single fuel would save weight, avoiding two fuel tanks and the huge solid boosters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is very upstream research, but indispensable for preparing for the future,&#8221; said the engineer. It will take some decades to produce a strategic military weapon or a commercial space launcher with a hypersonic speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a longer, flatter tube than an older test bench next door, the new test bench motor has 200 sensor pressure pads, 20 heat sensors and there is a plan to add windows on the tube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The US is naturally ahead in the hypersonic work, but France is not far behind,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus has a patent for a three-fuel technology that would fly a hypersonic airliner from Paris to Tokyo in just under three hours, Reuters <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has <\/span>reported. Airbus said the group and its division takes out hundreds of patents to protect copyright but not all the patents lead to fully realized technology or product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the marketplace, US company SpaceX is working on its Falcon reusable commercial launchers to send cargo\u00a0to the International Space Station and place satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the test bench next door, Onera and European missile maker MBDA are working on an upgrade for the ASMP-A, which entered service in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onera said on Oct. 2 that the center and the French space agency, Centre National d&#8217;Etudes Spatiales, had agreed to a joint study for a first-stage reusable launcher and look for technology for recovery, return and maintenance. The study will look at a recovery of the first-stage launcher, and simulation based on air and temperature data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another part of the center, Blade, a 3D battle lab simulator, allows testing of concepts for missiles, drones, platforms, radar, optic sensors\u00a0and electromagnetic systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are highly visual experiences but they are not video games, said research engineer Rapha\u00ebl Cuisinier. Different scenarios can be run. One of the concepts is based on Mars, an attack missile launched against an enemy surface-to-air missile battery, comprising detection and targeting radars, command post, and missile launchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simulation runs complex scenarios such as one showing a future concept of an unmanned combat aerial vehicle and a Rafale, cooperating in an attack mission, with an enemy interception of the former while the latter hits its target on the enemy base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such simulation allows working on trade-offs between stealth and speed variables. The researchers can see the &#8220;hypothetical,&#8221; Cuisinier said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We can see whether the missile should be more stealthy, more maneuverable, what speed, what altitude, we can play on the compromise and play them out on the simulator.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onera last November requested \u20ac218 million (US $248.8 million)\u00a0of state funding to modernize its wind tunnels at Modane and Fauga Mauzac, southeast France. One of the wind tunnels was used to experiment on the Rafale fighter launching an\u00a0Exocet missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onera in September hit French headlines following a report from the Cour des Comptes, the national audit office, which criticized the center for weak governance and lack of strategy, notwithstanding the quality of the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work from the research center has found its way onto the Neuron technology demonstrator for a combat drone, the Armement Air-Sol Modulaire powered smart bomb, the Spectra electronic warfare system\u00a0and M88 jet engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The center is also working on the Future Combat Air System-Development Program, an Anglo-French study for a combat drone, and Graves surveillance radar, which tracks satellites in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State funding to Onera fell to \u20ac96 million in 2014 from \u20ac126 million in 2008, with the Defense Ministry accounting for \u20ac122 million of the latter, according to an Onera presentation. 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