Orbital, Subcontractor Near Settlement in Dispute over Hardware

摘要

A contractor Orbital Sciences Corp. sued for delaying upgrades to the Virginia spaceport Orbital uses for space station cargo launches will turn over hardware needed for the improvements now that a resolution appears to have been reached. "Everything shipped this morning, all the equipment," Kevin Huber, managing director of Integrated Systems and Machinery, told SpaceNews in a Nov. 7 phone interview. Mark Shifton, Huber's attorney, told SpaceNews in a Nov. 7 email that "the case has not been settled, but Integrated Systems and Machinery and Orbital have reached an agreement on the material terms necessary to settle the matter." Shifton said he was "very optimistic" the case would be settled "in the near future."