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Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2017 Airbus Defence and Space delivered to NASA a propulsion test module for the Orion programme. The Propulsion Qualification Test Model (PQM) will be used to check that the Orion European Service Module (ESM) spacecraft...

NASA’s next crewed spacecraft is now under development and represents a return to the design philosophy of the Apollo era. Stuart Nathan reports Since the last flight of the Space Shuttle in 2011, there has only been one way to get humans into space...

DLR chairman Johann-Dietrich Woerner will take over as ESA’s director general on July 1, 2015. Credit: ESA–P. Sebirot, 2014 Johann-Dietrich Woerner, head of the German Aerospace Center, will take over as director general of the European Space Agency...

Parabolic Arc: A test version of ESA’s service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. (Credit: Airbus) BREMEN, Germany (ESA PR) — A test version of ESA’s service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft arrived in the US yesterday after leaving its assembly site...

Orion’s European module ready for testing The European Service Module is adapted from Europe’s largest spacecraft, the Automated Transfer Vehicle, which completed its last mission to the International Space Station in February. Just nine months later...