In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog.
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Blue Origin won a NASA contract worth up to $700 million to build and launch a Mars communications orbiter, and Rocket Lab has filed a protest against the award. The dispute follows Blue Origin's own 2021 protest of NASA's crewed lunar-lander award to SpaceX.
Rocket Lab has challenged NASA's Mars Telecommunications Network award to Blue Origin, five years after Blue Origin protested NASA's first crewed lunar-lander award to SpaceX. The post In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog. appeared first on Space Daily .
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