05/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - French initiative on reusable launchers. On Friday 2 October, the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), which is the organisation in charge of implementing the French space programme, and ONERA (the French organisation for aeronautic research) announced an initiative on reusable launchers. This will be a six-month study aiming to identify reusable launcher solutions and their technical viability. The programme has two parts - the first will focus on...