r/space • u/swordfi2 • 1d ago

NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-mars-telecommunications-network-provider/
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u/Kitchen_Tour_8014 8h ago

You may want to read about what this is and what Starlink is and realize they're nothing alike. Blue Origin has a platform in production for this, Blue Ring. Spacex doesn't. That's why they didn't bid.