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Boeing Demands Virgin Galactic Destroy All Data From Its Failed Space Tourism Partnership
The aerospace company is accusing Virgin Galactic of unlawfully using Boeing's proprietary information for a mothership design.
On Friday, Boeing asked a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, to issue a court order blocking Virgin Galactic from further using proprietary data that was shared between the two companies as part of an agreement in 2022, according to the complaint. The lawsuit claims that Virgin Galactic kept intellectual property related to the development of the mothership, refusing to honor a contractual promise to destroy two sets of trade secrets. Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial flight recently launched in January, marking the first time all four seats aboard its VSS Unity spaceplane were occupied by private astronauts.
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