Dassault Aviation and OHB announced a partnership to propose the VORTEX-S multipurpose spaceplane to the European Space Agency. The companies said the project is intended to support autonomous European space transportation capabilities through reusable space mobility technologies.<\/p>\n
According to the companies, the VORTEX-S spaceplane is designed to conduct round-trip transport missions to space stations as well as autonomous orbital free-flyer operations. The proposal is being prepared together with additional European partners as discussions continue to expand the consortium.<\/p>\n
Dassault Aviation and OHB stated that talks are underway with other major European space companies to broaden industrial participation in the programme. The companies said the project is intended to advance Europe\u2019s future capabilities in the field of space mobility.<\/p>\n
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Marco Fuchs, chief executive of OHB, said, \u201cVORTEX-S is an ambitious initiative for the ESA, driven by the need for autonomous European space transportation capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs one of Europe\u2019s leading space companies, the orbital sector is our core area of activity,\u201d Fuchs added. \u201cThe partnership with Dassault Aviation is a perfect fit: As family-run high-tech companies, we share a common vision and bring complementary strengths to the development of a reusable spaceplane\u2014Dassault Aviation as an aircraft manufacturer and OHB as a space company.\u201d<\/p>\n
The companies stated that the VORTEX-S proposal combines Dassault Aviation\u2019s aircraft manufacturing expertise with OHB\u2019s experience in orbital systems and space technologies. According to the announcement, the programme is intended to strengthen Europe\u2019s independent access to space transportation capabilities.<\/p>\n
Dassault Aviation and OHB added that the reusable spaceplane concept is designed to support both crewed and autonomous missions in orbit. The companies said the initiative reflects growing European interest in sovereign and reusable space transport systems for future operational requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dassault Aviation and OHB announced a partnership to propose the VORTEX-S multipurpose spaceplane to the European Space Agency.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,19,17,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-482032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116565584458856809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}