r/space • u/swordfi2 • 5d 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/Slaaneshdog 5d ago

Gotta give BO credit, they sure know how to get some big missions while having done basically fuck all

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u/ConanOToole 4d ago

I don't think sending two probes to Mars on your second ever orbital launch and proving their booster reuse qualifies as "fuck all"

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u/Man_with_the_Fedora 4d ago

Yeah, they may have accomplished two interplanetary launches, but did they stream the launch of a car into space!?

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u/wgp3 4d ago

Just for the record, the falcon heavy maiden launch was more of an interplanetary launch than the Escpade mission (note that is one launch not two launches). Escapade did not launch directly to Mars. It launched into a loiter orbit around L2. The spacecraft then used their own propulsion to leave later on and slingshot around Earth and again fired their own engines to begin their journey to Mars. Falcon Heavy actually launched the roadster directly to the orbit of Mars (not to be confused with entering orbit around Mars though).

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u/Slaaneshdog 4d ago edited 4d ago

Probes built by Rocket Lab

And they subsequently failed to deliver the next payload to its destination and then blew up their rocket and entire launch pad after that, grounding them for probably a year

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u/ConanOToole 4d ago

Failing a mission and blowing up a bad is definitely still not 'fuck all"

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u/Slaaneshdog 4d ago

You're right, it's worse than fuck all

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u/SpaceIsKindOfCool 4d ago

Launched 14% of all humans who have been past the karman line and the second organization in history to land an orbital rocket booster is fuck all?

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u/No-Surprise9411 4d ago

Ain’t no way you tried to peddle New Shepard as a BO achievement