Follow the livestream on ESA Web TV starting at 12:30 CEST (11:30 BST).
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
ESA’s agreement with NASA to supply the modules gives Europe three astronaut seats on future moon missions, which Parker says are likely to be on Artemis 4 and 5, though with discussion still underway it is still possible a European could fly on the third Artemis mission
[rant]
It's not the biggest or most powerful rocket ever built. Saturn V, N1 and Starship each beat it in on one or more vital statistics.
Lots of jobs created in key voting states for re-use of Shuttle era leftovers sitting in warehouses for years and years.
NASA doc https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_reference_guide_2022_v2_print_0.pdf
Page 45 lists the flights the engines have been on before. These reusable engines will be discarded into the ocean.
Engine 2045: STS - 89, 95, 92, 102, 105, 110, 113, 121, 118, 127, 131, 135
Engine 2056: STS - 104, 109, 114, 121
Engine 2058: STS - 116, 120, 124, 119, 129, 133
Engine 2060: STS - 127, 131, 135
Page 52 lists the Reused Shuttle SRB segments. They were never worth reusing as steel is relatively cheap.
[/rant]
