Airbus Wins Contract to Build Module for NASA Lunar Mission
May 26 2020 - 6:40AM
Dow Jones News
By Cristina Roca
Airbus SE has booked a contract with the European Space Agency
worth around 250 million euros ($272.4 million), it said
Tuesday.
The contract is for the contruction of the third European
Service Module for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Orion spacecraft. The module will be used to fly
astronauts on the U.S. Artemis lunar mission in 2024. The module
will work as the main propulsion system for the spacecraft, among
other functions, Airbus said.
Airbus has already delivered a first service module to NASA, and
plans to deliver the second one in the first half of 2021.
Write to Cristina Roca at cristina.roca@dowjones.com;
@_cristinaroca
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