Why NASA Canceled Ambitious OSAM-1 Demonstration Spacecraft

OSAM-1

NASA bit off too much with the OSAM-1 mission, the IG report said.

The writing was on the wall for NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 project when an inspector general report last fall laid out technical problems, cost overruns and delays for the program. NASA finally let the axe fall on the ambitious multibillion-dollar program this month...

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