NASA and ESA have a long term plan for Europe to deliver a the European Service Module for the Orion spacecraft. With NASA’s announcement to bring humans back to lunar surface before the end of 2024, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In about two years' time humanity will return to the surface of the Moon, as NASA will begin the Artemis III mission. That may seem like way into the future, and for most things, it is. But when when ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a further contract with Airbus for the construction of three more European Service Modules (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft for the Artemis ...

Even if it's not something that constantly comes up, the European Space Agency (ESA) is one of the largest contributors to NASA's Artemis Moon exploration program - the Old Continent is responsible, ...