The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is being sued by aerospace manufacturer Orbital ATK over its plans to give a Canadian company a $15m contract so it can put together a fleet of space robots that will be capable of repairing satellites, promising large savings from needing to launch fewer satellites to replace faulty ones. 1,338 crores) from investors. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday and first reported by Reuters, DARPA’s director of advanced research and engineering James Pohlman says his agency has been forced into an “impossible Orbital is alleging the contract violates federal policy against creating government space programmes in competition with existing commercial ones.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is being sued by aerospace manufacturer Orbital ATK over its plans to give a Canadian company a $15m contract so it can put together a fleet of space robots that will be capable of repairing satellites, promising large savings from needing to launch fewer satellites to replace faulty ones. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday and first reported by Reuters, DARPA’s director of advanced research and engineering James Pohlman says his agency has been forced into an “impossible Orbital is alleging the contract violates federal policy against creating government space programmes in competition with existing commercial ones.