Airbus Bremen delivers component for Orion Moon landing

From the Moon Better to Mars Airbus Plant in Bremen (Germany) Delivers Fourth Module for New Moon Landing

2025-11-12 Source: dpa 1 min Reading Time

The Airbus plant in Bremen is, as emphasized, delivering the next important component for the planned Moon landing with the Orion spacecraft ...

This is how NASA envisions the approach to the Moon's surface with the planned Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis mission. The fourth module for Orion comes from the Airbus plant in Bremen and is scheduled to be shipped to Florida in mid-November 2025.(Image: NASA) — This is how NASA envisions the approach to the Moon's surface with the planned Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis mission. The fourth module for Orion comes from the Airbus plant in Bremen and is scheduled to be shipped to Florida in mid-November 2025.
(Image: NASA)

The fourth European Service Module (ESM) for the Orion spacecraft is set to be transported by ship from the Airbus plant in Bremen to Florida in just a few days. Using the Orion spacecraft, which unfortunately has nothing to do with the well-known rascal patrol led by Commander Cliff MacLane, astronauts are expected to set foot on the lunar surface for the first time since the 1970s—and even stay longer on the Moon. The module, manufactured in Bremen (Germany), is designed to supply Orion and its crew with power, water, and oxygen during the flight. Experts from the space agency NASA will now test the component in advance and install it underneath the astronaut capsule, as further reports explain. Incidentally, two parts make up the entire spacecraft. The upcoming lunar visitors will live and work in the first lunar space station ever, referred to as the Gateway. There, they aim to gain new scientific insights and, not least, help prepare the planned manned missions to Mars.

Our Next Neighbor in Space Should Be Better Understood

Airbus is building the module on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), which, incidentally, is also pursuing its own plans in addition to the American mission. According to reports, the goal is to fully understand the Moon by 2040. Experts are expected to study the Moon scientifically, establish critical infrastructure, and thus enable longer stays for Europeans on the lunar surface. For this, the organization relies on Bremen's technology. And for Airbus, this is an important signal, as the alliance with America currently seems to be at risk of breaking. So far, only the funding for the fifth module is secured. The company assumes that one day the sixth module will also be delivered to America, but how plans for the seventh, eighth, and ninth modules will continue remains uncertain, as it is finally stated.

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