BLUE ORIGIN
JEFF BEZOS SUES NASA OVER SPACEX CONTRACT
NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a lawsuit from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.
In mid-April, NASA announced that SpaceX would build the Human Lander System (HLS), which will ferry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface, for the Artemis 3 mission due to fly in 2024. But since the decision, NASA has spent just weeks actually working on the partnership due to repeated objections from Blue Origin, which also competed for the contract.
After an independent government agency rejected Blue Origin's first complaint about the contract, the company sued NASA in the Court of Federal Claims, which exclusively hears cases against the U.S. government, on Aug. 13; the agency has now agreed to pause the project for 2.5 months in exchange for resolving the lawsuit by the end of that window.
BLUE ORIGIN NEWS OF 8/22/2021
BLUE ORIGIN AGAINST SPACEX AGAIN
BLUE ORIGIN BEHIND ON DEVELOPMENT
BLUE ORIGIN BEHIND ON DEVELOPMENT
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is beefing with Elon Musk's SpaceX again, claiming that Starship is too complex to safely land astronauts on the moon
BLUE ORIGIN BEHIND ON DEVELOPMENT
BLUE ORIGIN BEHIND ON DEVELOPMENT
BLUE ORIGIN BEHIND ON DEVELOPMENT
The BE-4's delayed development has, increasingly, been the subject of keen interest. This is partly because ULA has been working on its new Vulcan rocket for a number of years, and that rocket is important to the future of the company. The military is also eager for this delivery, as ULA is a primary provider of launch services to the Department of Defense alongside SpaceX. They hope Vulcan provides lower cost launch services with engines manufactured in the United States. Finally, many in the space community are genuinely curious about the cause of the delay.