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A comment on Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sierra Space, Boeing. Parent comment

Re:Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sie... by _joel on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:42PM (#28990787)
Last week the senate requested that 2 projects be funded, thanks to lobbying by the consortiums. Team Dynetics pulled out of the GAO contesting as they knew they'd get another support contract for future Artemis project missions.

edit for link: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/senate-budget-committee-te...

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Re:Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sie... by panick21_ on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:46PM (#28990859)
They didn't give enough money for that, they can demand it all they want.
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Re:Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sie... by _joel on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:48PM (#28990882)
Sure, but watch how their bid will magically reduce itself now. There has been noises that they will increase the budget too.
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