NASA Cancels Ambitious OSAM-1 Demo Spacecraft

NASA Inspector General blamed Maxar for many of OSAM-1’s problems.

Credit: NASA
NASA has canceled its ambitious On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project after technical problems, cost overruns and delays. The program was plagued by “a lack of a committed partner,” the space agency said in a short notice about the cancellation posted to its website on...

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