Dreamliner Battery Maker Also Holds NASA Space Station Contract

Boeing Co.’s battery woes may not stop with the Dreamliner.

A unit of Kyoto, Japan-based GS Yuasa Corp., whose batteries are now under investigation after incidents that led to the worldwide grounding of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner fleet, won a contract in August to supply lithium-ion battery cells to help power the International Space Station. Boeing oversees all contract work at the space station as the National Aeronautics Space Administration’s prime contractor.