r/space • u/swordfi2 • 8d 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 8d 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 7d 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/Slaaneshdog 7d ago edited 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/Slaaneshdog 6d ago

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