Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this

Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by _Microft on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:06PM (#28202264)

Blue Origin competed for a Human Landing System ("HLS") [0] contract. SpaceX won a contract and Blue Origin did not. Then Blue Origin complained at the GAO and the complaint was rejected. Management is acting like sore losers ever since. They have released graphics badmouthing SpaceX' Starship [1] and are suing NASA now [2]. The prevailing view is that this behaviour is not just sanctioned by CEO Bob Smith but by Jeff Bezos himself.

Search for Blue Origin, HLS and/or GAO for the rest of the story. The coverage by Ars Technica's Eric Berger is usually a good source, you might want to skim the list of his articles [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_...

[1] https://www.blueorigin.com/assets/blue-origin-hls-national-t...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-takes...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/

Edit: thanks verdverm, I added some links and restructured the post

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by resolve-ev on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:57PM (#28202870)

They have even drawn the dimensions of Starship wrong in the graphic.(The length from the hatch should be almost 4 times as long not 3) https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PzZvWXOlV09B4wI9jPA_yRp5N9...

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by verdverm on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:09PM (#28202294)

They have, since the GAO decision, released two jerky info graphics and have most recently sued NASA.

Guess they haven't thought about the phrase "don't bite the hand that feeds you" recently

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by hinkley on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:38PM (#28202651)

How many people have come off looking good by suing NASA?

Seems like the Venn Diagram of that includes families of astronauts killed on missions, people who had stuff land on their house, and <checks notes> no, that's about it.

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by nickik on Monday August 16, 2021 @06:35PM (#28203808)

SpaceX sued NASA (or at least complained) and won. NASA wanted to award a contract to Space plane Kistler and this was prevented and the contract competed. This however was the GAO and they already rejected Blue complaint.

SpaceX also sued Air Force and won that too.

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by iso1210 on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:18PM (#28203112)

Didn't Austrailia sue NASA for littering with skylab?

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by perilunar on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:45AM (#28206594)

Sort of. The local government area where the debris landed (Esperance, in Western Australia) fined NASA $400 for littering.

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by Aeronwen on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:19AM (#28207442)

Which NASA stiffed them on.

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by hinkley on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:19PM (#28203124)

Is that the 'stuff landing on your house' scenario or are you thinking of a different incident?

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by verdverm on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:59PM (#28203481)

I'd add that NASASpaceFlight does a great job of covering this in their weekend round tables.

Great place to keep up with all things space related.

In particular, they reflect what most of us are feeling w.r.t. recent BO executive moves vs the engineers hard work and passion

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Re:Blue Origin Engineer: we are not like this by krrishd on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:29PM (#28204167)

Ah, thanks.

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