A view of the aft section of the European Service Module of the Orion spacecraft taken as the Artemis 1 mission nears its conclusion. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — As the Artemis 1 mission nears its ...

Airbus prepared the Orion ESM-3 for shipment to the U.S. Credit: Airbus Airbus is dispatching the third European Service Module (ESM-3) to the U.S. for eventual use on NASA’s mission to return humans ...

ESA’s team for the European Service Module is based at the Agency’s technical heart ESTEC in The Netherlands. From here around 60 people oversaw the design and reviewed it together with NASA and ...

Space exploration is a fascinating human activity, but at times it does come across as strange. Like when NASA rocket scientists surrounded the Artemis II Service Module with huge speakers and blasted ...

The next mission to carry humans to the moon is inching closer to reality. The hardware that will supply power, life support, water, fuel and propulsion to the astronauts on board the Orion capsule ...

The European Service Module-2 and Orion crew module adapter for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft was moved into the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell inside NASA’s Operations and Checkout ...

A space mission on a grand scale, the likes of the Artemis Program is one far too large for one space agency, one nation, or one company. That's why perhaps the most functionally vital portion of the ...

Credit: Structural test article for European Service Module: Thales Alenia Space A duplicate of the service module that the European Space Agency (ESA) will provide as its contribution to NASA’s Orion ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed the service module for NASA's Orion spaceship, which is meant to take the nearly cancelled Artemis 4 mission to the moon. The module, which is supposed to ...

The Orion spacecraft for the moon mission Artemis 2 comes together at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians joined the European service module with the crew module at the Neil Armstrong ...

Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida move the Artemis II European Service Module to a lifting station inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Jan. 13, 2023. The ...

Papers were just signed to deliver the Artemis 2 service module into NASA's possession. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The next ...