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Artemis Ii: "without the European Service Module, the Mission Is Impossible"
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Within the European Space Agency (ESA), Philippe Berthe is responsible for coordination on the ESM, the European Service Module of the Orion spacecraft. As with Artemis I in 2022, he will be a member of the Mission Management Team in Cap Canaveral and then Houston on the second flight of the programme, the first inhabited towards the Moon in more than half a century. Interview.
It is a subsidiary of Airbus which has manufactured the ESM, the centrepiece for supplying water, air and electricity to the crew en route to the Moon. In return, Europe must obtain tickets for its astronauts in future missions.
As the world prepares for the launch of Artemis II, the first mission with crew on the Moon in more than 50 years, the European service module Orion (ESM-2) is fully integrated, fuel-supplied and ready for flight. The ESM is built by Airbus on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA)....
European eyes on Artemis
When the four astronauts of Artemis II lift off to travel towards the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, Europe will be travelling with them – not only through the European Service Module that powers their spacecraft, but also through teams of engineers and medical specialists monitoring every move from Earth. From ESA centres in the Netherlands and Germany to NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, European experts will follow the miss…
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