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.
Finnish crane manufacturer Konecranes will continue its work at TerraPower’s Natrium reactor demonstration plant in Wyoming, USA, by supplying a fully customised 125-tonne hoist crane.
Charter brokerage Chapman Freeborn has appointed Bernardo Nunes as chief operating officer.
Dutch transport engineering specialist Mammoet has performed the decommissioning load-ins of all three gravity-based topsides that were installed at the Brent field in the North Sea. Brent Charlie was the third, last and heaviest of the jobs.
Antonov Airlines in cooperation with Ceva Logistics delivered 40-tonnes of satellite equipment from Cologne-Bonn, Germany to Titusville, USA.
Laso Transportes has delivered key components for the 51.2 MW Cascante wind farm in Navarra, Spain.
