The powerhouse that will help NASA’s Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on ...

NASA is building a system to send astronauts to the Moon for Artemis missions, and that includes tests to make sure the Orion spacecraft is prepared to safely carry crew on an alternate mission ...

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 ...

Designed to carry astronauts farther into space than ever before, NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule is one step closer to its first mission around the Moon. One key component of Orion is ...

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 second European Service Module, a key component of the Orion space capsule, is currently on its way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. This will be the last stop for the module on Earth before it ...

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 ...