/sci/ - Science & Math

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>Specifically, Blue Origin plans to fund and execute pathfinder lander missions in 2024 and 2025, to land on the Moon to mature several critical, low-TRL technologies three years before the Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) uncrewed demonstration mission by demonstrating lunar lander components, subsystem designs, and system behaviors.
> and there is no financial impact to NASA because the pathfinder missions are being funded by Blue Origin.

first pathfinder lander mission in 2024 from BO?

> It is a significant strength of the proposal. Blue Origin’s architecture supports market expansions above and beyond the Appendix P mission of the Lunar Cargo Delivery Service, In-Space Transportation services, and Refueling markets by expanding the space economy through Blue Origin’s availability of its commercial lander capabilities to international agencies, other Government customers, and private astronaut
non-NASA commercial availability of the lander was mentioned by John Couloris as well

> the SEP calculated the Total Evaluated Price for Blue Origin as $3,419,345,052.35,

The pic has the two sections that have weaknesses in BOs proposal
continuous communication might not be possible (this is a bit contradictory compared to what Couloris said, perhaps they fixed it?)
second weakness is a bit more concerning and kind of increases the risk of BO delivering this thing at all, they don't really have a good track record at delivering anything