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 ...

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, June 20 (Reuters) - Dassault Aviation (AM.PA), opens new tab and the French government signed on Friday an agreement whereby France's armed forces ministry would support the development of ...

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 ...