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Custom Circular Dolly Hauls NASA's Orion Spacecraft

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012

Hamilton helped NASA build a rover to land on Mars. Now we’re helping humans get there. NASA is using our custom circular dolly to cart a mockup of the Orion Spacecraft capsule for parachute testing.

The goal of Project Orion is to eventually launch four astronauts to the Moon, and then to the Red Planet 352 million miles away from Earth. Using our custom dolly, NASA can move the space capsule from the testing facility and into a plane for a high-altitude airdrop test.

Here are the tech specs of our most unique custom jobs:

  • Size: 102" diameter with 28" diameter hole in the center
  • Height from floor to top of dolly: 24"
  • Plate steel deck over steel channel frame
  • Running gear: Three S-MD-164DT swivel casters with 16" by 4" Duralast wheels with tapered roller bearings
  • Steelwork enameled, hammertone blue
  • Load capacity: 10,000 lbs.

For far-out custom jobs, or exotic projects a little closer to home, think Hamilton. See more at our gallery of custom designed carts & trailers.

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