Wheelift - A Doerfer Companies Technology

04/29/2026

Wheelift Heavy Transporters were in action again yesterday moving the Artemis III rocket to the Kennedy Space Center.

The core stage for the Artemis III rocket has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after a 900-mile journey from NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.

Watch teams offload this crucial piece of hardware for the mission that will test rendezvous and docking necessary for future crewed landings on the lunar surface: https://www.youtube.com/live/oWe8kvpxzsI

04/21/2026

Wheelift and TDS Automation are proud to be part of another successful move by NASA. The Wheelift transporters are a key component in moving the SLS Core Stage from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the NASA Pegasus barge for transport to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

04/21/2026

04/02/2026

ICYMI:

A lot of hard work by many people from right here in the Cedar Valley (including Bremer County and Waverly) came to fruition last night.

Notice the yellow Self-Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMT's) transporting the Space Launch System (SLS) Rocket in the photo. SPMT's were designed and built right here in the Cedar Valley by Wheelift / TDS Automation.

Artemis II transported a crew of four Astronauts to orbit the Earth twice and figure eight around the Moon in the Orion Space Capsule with the assistance of the SLS Rocket. The largest rocket ever built!

What a cool thing for rural Iowa and Bremer County to be a part of!!!

KWAY Waverly
Waverly Newspapers

11/11/2020

Wheelift doing great things!

04/07/2020

As NASA prepares for the first launch of Artemis I, the first mission of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Moon, one team will be there every step of the way: the aptly nicknamed “SLS Move Team.”

03/25/2020

See Wheelift Transporters in action as they transport crucial parts for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and NASA's Orion spacecraft.

NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket and NASA’s Orion spacecraft are making progress to the pad. Over the course of their development, the rocket and s...

03/09/2020

Wheelift Transporters assisting with the SLS Core Stage.

The four women in charge of the effort to build and test the 212-foot-tall rocket stage that will enable NASA’s first Artemis mission to the Moon watch as the first completed core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System Program rolls out from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans ...

03/09/2020

Wheelift Transporters being used for Vulcan Rockets.

We have completed the qualification booster! Innovative technology and proven design are coming together as we continue to prepare for our next-gen rocket’s first flight in 2021. This structure includes the liquefied natural gas tank, the liquid oxygen tank, newly designed thrust structure and liquid oxygen skirt. Vulcan Centaur is purpose built to meet all the requirements of our nation’s space launch needs. Congratulations and thank you to our for all of your work completing this qual unit on schedule!

02/17/2020

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/91273-agvs-bring-flexibility-to-fighter-jet-manufacturing

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) created the Joint Advance Strike Technology (JAST) program. The goal of JAST was to develop aircraft, weapons and sensor technology that would replace disparate United States and United Kingdom aircraft with a single family of aircraft.