A NASA public affairs official did not immediately respond
Monday to a message about the Bigelow Aerospace lawsuit filed Thursday in US
District Court in Las Vegas.
In it, attorneys for Bigelow say the company completed
promised work under a NASA contract, but the agency has withheld payment unless
the company provides "extensive, recorded raw test data" collected
during tests from December 2019 through August 2020.
The lawsuit acknowledges "issues" including a
power surge, computer failures, and air conditioning malfunction affected data
acquisition at times during leak tests of an expandable Bigelow B330 module.
The B330 is designed to provide a deep-space habitat for
humans and cargo.
The legal filing said the issues did not prevent Bigelow
Aerospace from completing tests showing that B330 pressure was maintained
successfully.
Bigelow has a plant in North Las Vegas with a scenic view of
the distant Las Vegas Strip.
It maintained it completed the contract as written and that
NASA is entitled to the rest of the company data once it pays the $1 million
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