RobotRisk / Maxar Space / 2024-03-01

NASA cancels $2B OSAM-1 robotic satellite-servicing mission over Maxar performance

S4 · 03/01
2024 · Maxar Space

Record

Company	Maxar Space
Category	space robotics
Type	mission-loss
Date	03/01 2024
Time of day	not documented
Location	no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
Severity	S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale	1 program, ~$2B mission cancelled
Confidence	high
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	CNBC

What happened

NASA terminated its OSAM-1 (On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing) mission, which relied on a Maxar-built spacecraft and robotic servicing arm to refuel an aging satellite, after citing persistent cost overruns, schedule delays, and technical/performance problems with contractor Maxar.

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