The new space shuttle concept could increase European space independence.

The Vortex is a European response to U.S. superiority in space. This new concept is designed to fly to space and land like an airplane. The concept involves the ability for spaceborne refuelling. The shuttle can dock the rocket stage behind it. And when that rocket stage is empty. The system can remove it, and then dock another stage to that point. This kind of application can turn the Mars flight closer. The stage that the system docs can also involve a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. Application. So the system can launch the manned module to the Moon orbiter. And there the system switches the nuclear rocket application to that module. 

This type of system is the tool to achieve domination in space. The space shuttle, or reusable space plane, is a tool that can serve both civil and military purposes. Space plays a greater role in modern warfare. Things like drone swarms use satellite communication. 

And satellite-based targeting and intelligence applications. Many military systems. Like GPS-guided bombs require satellites.  And also. Things like artillery and air support. Require the precise position of one's own and enemy troops. Without that information, the fire will fall into its own positions. Or, it's otherwise ineffective. 

By destroying satellites that transmit operational orders to drone swarms and location information, the system becomes useless. In the same way, if things like radar satellites are destroyed. That decreases. Those satellite-based systems' ability to get information. The system that destroys the radar satellite can be based on the same technology as the AGM-88 High-speed anti-radiation missile, HARM. The system would be the max-sized HARM missile that homes in on the radar satellite. By using its radio transmissions for targeting routines. 

The space shuttle can operate as a space fighter. Space junk is also a problematic thing. There is always a possibility that. If somebody collects the junk satellite back. To the ground. That actor can get things like. Satellite’s communication frequencies. Or,some other highly-classified information. That makes it possible to jam the communication signals. The space shuttle can return those satellites. From the orbital trajectory. 

Another thing. In space junk. It is more devastating. There is a possibility that the fractional orbital bombardment system, FOBS, satellites are lurking in the space junk. The FOBS satellite can play. Used rocket stages or malfunctioning satellites. The orbital bombardment platforms. They are one of the most terrifying weapons. That was ever created. The space shuttles can also host remote-controlled laboratories. Those laboratories can be used as space factories. The zero-gravity conditions allow. To grow perfect crystals and other things. 

The most interesting parts of those orbital space systems are that. The system can be a drone that operates as an atmospheric satellite. The orbital system can hold those drones in the capsule. That returns to the atmosphere after they get orders. Those drones can offer. The communication support for some areas. They can act in the same role as orbital satellites. And of course, those drones can also operate as strike systems. So they can act as kamikaze drones. Or shooting drones. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/europe-vortex-spaceplane-dassault-ohb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket