欧空局2014年11月17日同空客防务与航天公司签署了一份固定价格合同,以建造NASA“猎户座”载人飞船的服务舱,发射时间为2017年底或2018年初。合同价值3.9亿欧元(4.88亿美元)。按合同,空客将设计并建造一个服务舱,并建造第二个服务舱的部件,从而使欧空局得以以实物方式付清其2017~2020年应向NASA支付的空间站维护费用。该服务舱将具有推进、电力 ESA signed a fixed-price contract with Airbus Defense and Space Company on November 17, 2014 to build a service module for the NASA’s Orion’s manned spacecraft. The launch time is at the end of 2017 or early 2018. The value of the contract was 390 million euros ($488 million). Under the contract, Airbus will design and construct a service module and build a second service module component, which will allow ESA to pay in kind to pay for space station maintenance costs that it will pay to NASA in 2017-2020. The service cabin will have propulsion, electricity