A contract dispute in 2008 over which Company would build the next generation of U.S. geostationary orbiting weather satel-lites delayed progress on the program and could leave the nation without a backup weather capability for one year, according to an Oct. 1 report by a government watch-dog agency.rnNASA in 2008 awarded Denver-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems a contract to build the first two Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) series spacecraft.
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机译：根据政府10月1日的报告，该公司在2008年发生的一项合同纠纷中，公司将建造下一代美国对地静止轨道气象卫星，从而推迟了该计划的进展，并可能使该国失去后备气象能力一年。美国国家航空航天局（NASA）于2008年与总部位于丹佛的洛克希德·马丁航天系统公司（Lockheed Martin Space Systems）签定了建造首批两枚地球静止作战环境卫星-R（GOES-R）系列航天器的合同。
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