NASA Artemis III SLS Boosters Stack at Kennedy — What Aerospace Shops Should Watch

Posted by Jason Hansen on Oct 2nd 2026

On Thursday, September 24, 2026, NASA finished integrating the final forward solid rocket booster motor segments for the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) onto the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center. Coverage of the milestone ran through Dean Murray / Talker via Yahoo Tech on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. The twin SLS boosters — five segments each, manufactured by No …
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Collins Aerospace Expands West Des Moines Engine Components Capacity — What Shops Should Watch

Posted by Jason Hansen on Sep 30th 2026

On September 29, 2026, Collins Aerospace — an RTX business — announced a 14,000-square-foot expansion of its West Des Moines, Iowa manufacturing facility. The multi-million-dollar investment is aimed at adding capacity as commercial and military aviation programs pull more fuel-distribution hardware and related spares through the plant. For precision machine shops and OEM supp …
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NASA HiCAM Tooling: ORNL-Boeing 2-Ton Stamp Form Die

Posted by Jason Hansen on Sep 25th 2026

NASA aerospace manufacturing just got another tooling signal: Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Boeing finished a nearly two-ton Stamp Form Die for NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project — printed with wire-arc additive manufacturing instead of traditional casting and machining alone. Published September 21, 2026 by ORNL, the mold stands abo …
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