WASHINGTON: The US Agency on Friday rejected protest by Blue Origin and Defense Contractor Dynetics Inc.
on NASA’s decision to choose a single lunar landing provider.
The company challenged the $ 2.9 billion award to SpaceX for Lander, with NASA reasons needed to make many awards.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that “denied the protest argument that NASA acted incorrectly in making one award to SpaceX.” Blue Origin, a rocket company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, did not comment immediately.
That was obtained by NASA gave spacex unfair profits by letting him revise the price.
Dynetics, Leidos Holdings unit, also did not comment immediately.
On Monday, Bezos offered to cover up to $ 2 billion in the cost of NASA if the US space agency was awarded the blue origin of the contract to make a spaceship designed to land astronauts back to the moon.
In April, NASA gave an agreement on the entrepreneurial entrepreneur Elon Musk an agreement to build a spacecraft to bring a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the surface of the moon in early 2024.
In the letter to the NASA administrator Bill Nelson, Bezos said the payment was up to $ 2 billion, and Pay the orbital mission to beastize the technology.
Instead, blue origin will receive a company contract, fixed price, and includes the overruns of system development costs.
“Without competition, the ambition of short-term and long term NASA will be postponed, in the end it will be more expensive, and will not serve national interests,” Bezos added.
Before choosing SpaceX, NASA looked for a proposal for a spacecraft that would bring astronauts to the surface of the moon under its artemis program to restore humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
Bezos’s offer came six days after he flew along with three crew to the edge of the room above New Shepard Rocket-and-Capsule Blue Origin.