Contract signing for the European Service Module
Contract signing for the European Service Module
On 17 November 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned the aerospace company Airbus Defence and Space to develop and construct the service module for the Orion capsule. Thomas Reiter, ESA Director for Human Spaceflight and Operations and Bart Reijnen, Head of Orbital Systems and Space Exploration at Airbus Defence and Space and Director of their Bremen facility, put their signatures to the 390 million Euro contract in Berlin.
