European Service Module
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- ESA's European Service Module powers and sustains NASA's Orion spacecraft for lunar and deep-space missions.
- Provides essential utilities: electricity, water, oxygen, nitrogen, and thermal control, while also guiding the spacecraft.
- Measures 4 meters long, unpressurized, with a 19-meter solar array that deploys after launch.
- Built by Airbus Defence and Space, with components from across Europe, assembled in Europe before shipment to NASA.