Hughes Communications Galaxy, Inc. v. The United States

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• rejecting sovereign acts defense where contract was interpreted as expressly allocating the risk of change in governmental policy
• finding the unmistakability doctrine inapplicable to \the question of how liability for certain contingencies was allocated by the contract\
• finding the unmistakability doctrine inapplicable to “the question of how liability for certain contingencies was allocated by the contract”
• rejecting sovereign acts defense where contract was interpreted as expressly allocating the risk of change in governmental policy
• noting that the government was bound by a contract to provide its \best efforts\ to launch commercial payloads through the space shuttle program, in part because \the government did not challenge the validity of the contract before the Claims Court and does not do so here\
• interpreting contractual incorporation of then-current Government policy on space shuttle launches not as a promise not to change that policy, but as a promise \to bear the cost of changes in launch priority and scheduling resulting from the revised policy\

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