05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink endeavour. And it is a couple of thousand less than the 3,236 satellites planned as part of Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper network. This sheer volume of satellites expected to dominate our skies in the next few years...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...-fixed price, milestone-based contracts and were given to Elon Musk's SpaceX, Dynetics (a Leidos company) and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Blue Origin won 60 percent of the total funding amounting to $579 million, Dynetics: $253 million...
31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
.... According to a previous filing with the FCC, Amazon intends to launch its Kuiper System satellites in five waves. Jeff Bezos’s firm has not said when those satellites would be launched or what launch vehicle they would use...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... selected by NASA earlier this year to develop the Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) – a three-stage lander to be launched on Jeff Bezos’s own New Glenn Rocket System. Northrop Grumman will be providing the “Transfer Element”; a vehicle that brings...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
... delays, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon. Because of that, we’ve filed a protest with the GAO,” Jeff Bezo’s aerospace company said. In response to these protests, NASA has now informed SpaceX to stop work until GAO...
02 August 2021
US GAO upholds SpaceX's Moon lander contract
... "fundamental issues" with the original decision because of its limited jurisdiction. Recently, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, wrote an open letter to NASA offered to waive up to $2 billion in payments for FY2021-2023 to “restore competition to the...
