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ESM will be responsible for orbital manoeuvring and position control. It also provides the crew with the central elements of life support such as water and oxygen, and regulates thermal control while docked to the crew module.

Within the Artemis programme, NASA will use a European built system to power and supply a human spacecraft mission for the first time.

The ESM is cylindrical in shape and about four metres in diameter and height. It has four solar arrays (19 metres across when unfurled) that generate enough energy to power two households. In addition to its function as the main propulsion system for the Orion spacecraft, the ESM will be responsible for orbital manoeuvring and position control.

Aelous infographic – forecasting our daily weather

The chamber, which covers an area of some 100 m² and is fitted with huge loudspeakers, is hermetically sealed during tests.

Copernicus Sentinel-6 is an ocean altimetry mission to provide ocean topography measurements over the next decade.

Acoustic noise test simulates sound impact during rocket launch

The platform, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was installed on the ISS Columbus module on 1st April 2020.

JUICE infographic

JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. Planned for launch in 2022 and arrival at Jupiter in 2029, it will spend at least three years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Airbus is the prime contractor to ESA.

JUICE will spend more than three years in the Jupiter system, collecting data to provide anwers on the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life. It will spend nine months orbiting the icy moon Ganymede analysing its nature and evolution, and its potential habitability.

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TRISHNA will be the latest satellite in the joint Franco-Indian satellite fleet dedicated to climate monitoring and operational applications.

CIMON-2 started its journey to the ISS on 05 December 2019

CryoSat-2, the European Space Agency´s ice and snow satellite, was launched from the Baikonour Cosmodrone into orbit on 08 April 2010.

On the left: taken by the camera of the robotic arm, shows a clamp of the Bartolomeo platform slowly closing around a docking port at the Columbus laboratory. On the right: Bartolomeo installed and mounted to the Columbus laboratory (©NASA)

The Airbus built BepiColombo mission will make a fly-by past Earth on 10th April 2020 as it continues on its epic journey to Mercury.

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El sistema avanzado de circuito cerrado (ACLS)

The Advanced Closed-Loop System (ACLS)

Le système ACLS (Advanced Closed-Loop System for the ISS)

Das ACLS-System (Advanced Closed-Loop System for the ISS)

Orion ESM - Manking on the way to the Moon and beyond

Orion ESM - Voyage autour de la Lune, alimenté par le Module de Service Européen (ESM) d'Airbus

Orion ESM - A journey around the Moon powered by Airbus-built European Service Module (ESM)

Orion ESM - Un viaje alrededor de la Luna, impulsado por el Módulo de Servicio Europeo (ESM) construido por Airbus

Orion ESM - L'humanité s'envole vers la Lune et au-delà

Orion ESM - Eine Reise um den Mond mit dem von Airbus gebauten europäischen Servicemodul (ESM)

Orion ESM - La humanidad, camino a la Luna y más allá

Orion ESM - Die Menschheit auf dem Weg zum Mond und darüber hinaus