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 ...

Technicians perform final work on the service module for the Orion EM-1 mission at an Airbus factory in Bremen, Germany. Credit: ESA/A. Conigli BREMEN, Germany — The first European-built service ...

The European Service Module for the next Orion mission has completed final system integration at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany after technicians installed the last radiator unit. The first ...

Integration and testing of Cygnus spacecraft service modules continues at our Dulles, VA Satellite Manufacturing Facility (SMF). The service module on the left in the photo below will be used for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Artemis II mission is lifted by crane and moved along the center aisle of the high bay inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, ...