To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

"Like Dassault Aviation’s civil and military aircraft, the VORTEX spaceplane is designed to be highly versatile," said Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation. "It will contribute to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe. When you ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the brutal polar vortex that gripped the Great Lakes turned into something strangely beautiful. A satellite view captured ghostly spirals of ice curling across Lake ...

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 ...

This striking satellite photo shows rippling ribbons of ethereal ice swirling like turbulent clouds on the surface of Lake Michigan, alongside a snow-covered Chicago. The wintery scene occurred during ...