October 29, 2014
Hours before its shuttle launch failure on Tuesday, Orbital Sciences Corp. asked a Virginia federal court to make its subcontractor deliver key equipment that Orbital believed was being held "hostage" to prevent Orbital from cutting off the subcontractor from future work.
October 23, 2014
Orbital Sciences Corp. has sued a subcontractor on its NASA launch contract for fraudulently using another company's proprietary information to win subcontract work and for holding key pieces of equipment "hostage" to prevent Orbital from cutting it off from future work.