On May 18 Volga-Dnepr transported a 32 m-long rocket booster from Huntsville in Alabama to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
The rocket booster will be used on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, as part of NASA’s next Mars rover mission.
Volga-Dnepr also transported payload fairings and RD-180 engines for the mission.
Upon receiving the cargo, ULA moved the rocket into the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center for post-shipment checks. The launch is scheduled for July 17.
NASA’s Crawler-Transport 2 (CT-2) has moved the most powerful rocket ever built to the Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39C in preparation for its maiden launch around the Moon, which will take place no earlier than August 29.
The board of commissioners at the port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has approved a resolution authorising a cooperative endeavour agreement (CEA) among the five Lower Mississippi river ports, advancing regional collaboration and plans to create the largest port complex in the world.
The US Department of the Interior said that it will implement stricter oversight of wind and solar energy projects on federal lands.
South Africa-headquartered heavy transport and rigging specialist Vanguard has completed the turnkey installation and commissioning of a Yadon tandem press line for VSL Manufacturing in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
German crane and logistics provider Wasel deployed two LR 11000 crawler cranes, along with five further Liebherr cranes, for a bridge replacement project between Bottrop and Essen, in Germany.
India-based Super Freight has transported four mobile harbour cranes (MHCs) across two separate Intra-India deliveries. The four cranes had a combined weight of 1,672 tonnes.
