The NASA lawsuit was centered around the space agency solely awarding a $2.89 billion contract for the construction of its Artemis lunar lander to SpaceX, bidding out Blue Origin and rival Dynetics Inc. This prompted the two latter companies to file a legal complaint against the decision with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). The suit ended up getting rejected back in August, but only after Bezos pleaded to forego $2 billion towards the contract if NASA reconsidered its earlier decision. Judge releases redacted lunar lander lawsuit from Bezos’ Blue Origin against NASA-SpaceX contract. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal claims court, was dismissed by Judge Richard Hertling on Thursday, and bars both parties from revealing details of the decision until November 18, once redacted versions will be made public. The U.S Federal Court of Claims released a redacted version of the lawsuit filed in August by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin against NASA. The Amazon founder took to twitter to announce the defeat, admitting that it was “not the decision we wanted,” but wished “full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract.” Share Facebook Twitter Google+ ReddIt WhatsApp Pinterest Email. Not the decision we wanted, but we respect the court’s judgment, and wish full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract. JUDGE RELEASES AGAINST NASASPACEX CONTRACT REDACTED FULL The court’s latest decision comes at a pivotal moment for Blue Origin, which has faced both success and scrutiny as of late. After stepping down from his position as Amazon CEO in the second quarter, Bezos took on a more hands-on involvement in his space exploration company Blue Origin, which has already completed two crewed flights into suborbital space. JUDGE RELEASES AGAINST NASASPACEX CONTRACT REDACTED FULLīut, as cited by CNBC, the company has also simultaneously faced allegations of safety concerns and high employee turnover.īlue Origin’s shortcomings and aggressive rivalry against Tesla soon became the butt of Musk’s jokes, which focused on the space cowboy’s inability to “sue his way to the moon.” Indeed, it wouldn’t be Musk fashion to let Bezos’ defeat go down without a comment, and as such, the Tesla CEO took one last jab at the rival billionaire, posting a meme from the 2012 movie Dredd on twitter with the caption that he had been “judged.JUDGE RELEASES AGAINST NASASPACEX CONTRACT REDACTED MOVIE. Read the full copy of Blue Origin’s redacted lawsuit below. SpaceX was competing with Blue Origin and Dynetics for what was expected to be two contracts, before NASA awarded only a single contract due to a lower-than-expected allocation for the program from Congress. The congressional watchdog’s ruling backed the space agency’s surprise announcement in April that NASA awarded SpaceX with a lunar lander contract worth about $2.9 billion. Government Accountability Office denied the company’s protest, upholding NASA’s decision. “Historically a staunch advocate for prioritizing safety, NASA inexplicably disregarded key flight safety requirements for only SpaceX, in order to select and make award to a SpaceX proposal that assessed as tremendously high risk and immensely complex, even before the waiver of safety requirements,” Blue Origin said in the lawsuit filed in August.īlue Origin’s complaint came after the U.S. Federal Court of Claims on Wednesday released a redacted version of the lawsuit by Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin against NASA over the lucrative lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year.
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