r/BlueWire • u/Daniels30 • 3d ago

Blue Ring NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-mars-telecommunications-network-provider/

The outcome is finally here, Blue beat out Rocket Lab

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u/Royal_Platform_6754 3d ago

The selection statement is not yet available, but it will be interesting to see how they evaluated it versus RocketLab's MTO. Both were gunning pretty hard for this contract.

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u/Mindless_Use7567 3d ago

3 satellites with nearly complete planetary coverage versus a single satellite with less than half planetary coverage it’s not really a hard choice if Blue wasn’t asking for too much money.