In an ongoing legal tussle, Virgin Galactic has countered Boeing’s claim that they failed to pay $25 million for Aurora Flight Sciences Corp.’s engineering services. The human spaceflight company, in a federal countersuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleged that Boeing, and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences provided unsatisfactory and incomplete work which compelled Virgin Galactic to sever their ties.
Boeing and Aurora Flight Sciences had initially accused Virgin Galactic of not covering the cost for the design of a new mothership. Contrarily, Virgin Galactic asserts that Boeing not only underdelivered the work for the program but also withheld key intellectual property and technical artifacts essential to the project.
For more specific details on the countersuit and the predicament between the two aerospace and aeronautical giants, you are likely to be interested in this report on Law.com.