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{{outdent}}{{ping|Rod57}} Two years on: with the failure of NGIS OmegA to be selected by the DoD for the NSSL Phase 2 last week, and with explicit statements by the Dept. of the AF that they intend to claw back some of the yet-unearned bits of the large US$700+ million awarded to NGIS just to work on the design, I've not found any source that indicates NGIS is seriously pursuing commercial business for this dual-solid-rocket-stage expensive beast of a design. If anyone finds such a source, please list it here and we'll get it worked in. [[User:N2e|N2e]] ([[User talk:N2e|talk]]) 04:33, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
: {{ping|N2e}} Just a few minutes ago I read that Eric Berger tweeted : "Two days ago @northropgrumman informed its employees it was not moving forward with the Omega rocket, but there has still been no public announcement." [https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1296462155559186436 ] - [[User:Rod57|Rod57]] ([[User talk:Rod57|talk]]) 15:01, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
::{{ping|Rod57}}, yes, thanks. I used that source to update the article yesterday, indicating that NG would not continue the project.
::Now, today, right before I saw the notification of your ping, I made a fairly significant edit to add a paragraph to the history section to 1) address a mention of some things in the lede that were neither cited nor discussed in the article body, and 2) to put the OmegA rocket in it's broader context of a company (under multiple names, unfortunately, due to acquisitions) endeavoring to keet its solid rocket technology in the government-funded orbital space launch "market" for going on 16 years now. If you have a chance, would appreciate you reading it to proofread, and modify or improve. Cheers. [[User:N2e|N2e]] ([[User talk:N2e|talk]]) 18:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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