Airbus Defence and Space is in the home stretch of work to ship the first European Service Module (ESM) to its Florida launch site for integration with the rest of the hardware for NASA’s Orion ...

The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft. Orion's service module provides propulsion, thermal control, and electrical power ...

The tower itself is built onto ML-1 and supports not only the swing arms and their data and fueling systems, but also the Orion capsule and Service Module with purge lines, data and communication ...