French aerospace firm Dassault Aviation unveiled "Vortex," a family of reusable low-Earth orbit (LEO) spaceplanes, marking its entry into the competitive reusable spacecraft market. Dassault has ...

Despite being involved in various space exploration efforts at various levels, Europe only has a bunch of homemade rockets it can rely on to advance its goals beyond the borders of our planet. The ...

PARIS—Dassault Aviation is pushing for its proposed Vortex reusable spaceplane to become a European Space Agency (ESA) program, Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier said July 22. By taking on the Vortex ...

PARIS—The French Vortex spaceplane demonstrator program will aim to validate heat shield technology and different control capabilities once it takes flight in about three years. “We must invest in ...