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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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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