SLS rocket with Orion ESM at its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center for its upcoming launch of the Artemis II mission. ©Airbus DS 2026. The ESM is bui ...

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 Artemis II mission is using NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is designed to carry astronauts farther into space than ...

The European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis III mission to the moon will soon be on its way to the United States. The service module has left the integration ...

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 ...

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 European Service Module (ESM) is unpacked inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay on Nov. 7, 2018, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ESM is provided by the ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL—Seven years after Europe signed the contract to supply the service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the system arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Nov. 6. Carried inside ...

Artemis 2 matches Apollo 13's record: no humans have ever been this far from Earth before. European technology is crucial for this.