2024-03-02 08:10:00
The project was aimed at space refueling services
Dubai – Al Arabiya.net
Published on: March 02, 2024: 12:10 PM GST Last updated: March 02, 2024: 12:20 PM GST
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Friday that it would halt a project worth more than two billion dollars to test satellite services such as refueling in space due to high costs and schedule delays.
NASA said in October that the Orbiter Service, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project still faces increased costs and is expected to exceed its target value of $2.05 billion, as well as its launch date in December 2026.
Yesterday, Friday, it indicated that it had taken the decision to halt the project due to “ongoing technical challenges, cost and schedule, and the development of the broader community away from refueling ill-equipped spacecraft, which has led to the lack of a committed partner,” according to what was reported by “Reuters.”
NASA reported last October that one of the main reasons for the increased project costs and schedule delays was Maxar’s “poor” performance.
NASA previously contracted with Maxar in 2019 to help build its Gateway platform in lunar orbit, a vital external point for the first American mission to send astronauts to the moon.
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