{"id":542133,"date":"2018-10-24T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1270ef9d0745b0452d281c013715d12c"},"modified":"2018-10-24T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:50:00","slug":"orion-service-module-from-components-to-shipping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=542133","title":{"rendered":"Orion service module \u2013 from components to shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/10\/orion_service_module_from_components_to_shipping\/17831948-1-eng-GB\/Orion_service_module_from_components_to_shipping_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA look at the elements that make up the European service module that will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA\u2019s Orion Moon module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMade in Europe the service module is integrated in Bremen, Germany, from where it will be shipped to NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in the USA for testing and getting ready for launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInside the Service Module, large tanks hold fuel as well consumables for the astronauts: oxygen, nitrogen and water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadiators and heat exchangers keep the astronauts and equipment at a comfortable temperature, while the module\u2019s structure is the backbone of the entire vehicle, like a car chassis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe European Service Module is built by main contractor Airbus, with many companies all over Europe supplying components.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts, the first time a spacecraft will support humans with European hardware will also be the farthest humans ever travel from Earth. The first mission \u2013 without astronauts \u2013 is getting ready for launch in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/10\/orion_service_module_from_components_to_shipping\/17831948-1-eng-GB\/Orion_service_module_from_components_to_shipping_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA look at the elements that make up the European service module that will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA&rsquo;s Orion Moon module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMade in Europe the service module is integrated in Bremen, Germany, from where it will be shipped to NASA&rsquo;s Kennedy Space Center in the USA for testing and getting ready for launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInside the Service Module, large tanks hold fuel as well consumables for the astronauts: oxygen, nitrogen and water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadiators and heat exchangers keep the astronauts and equipment at a comfortable temperature, while the module&rsquo;s structure is the backbone of the entire vehicle, like a car chassis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe European Service Module is built by main contractor Airbus, with many companies all over Europe supplying components.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrion will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts, the first time a spacecraft will support humans with European hardware will also be the farthest humans ever travel from Earth. The first mission &ndash; without astronauts &ndash; is getting ready for launch in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542134,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542133\/revisions\/542134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}