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Blue Origin filed a pre-award protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2019-08-12 challenging the Air Force’s RFP evaluation criteria.
ULA chose to start Vulcan Centaur as an expendable vehicle in order to transition from the Russian-built RD-180 to Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines as quickly as possible.
Blue Origin filed its formal pre-award protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2019-08-12.
Blue Origin will offer the Blue Moon lander, unveiled in May 2020, which is capable of carrying several tons of cargo to the lunar surface.
The Government Accountability Office sustained Blue Origin’s protest of the Air Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 request for proposals on 2019-11-18.
Blue Origin's national team announced by Jeff Bezos on 2019-10-22 submitted a proposal to NASA by the 2019-11-05 deadline.
The Day 3 issue of the Show Daily was published 2019-10-23 and features a cover story on Blue Origin joining forces with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper to compete for NASA’s lunar lander contract.
Blue Origin has expressed interest in Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex-6 but has not announced firm plans to launch from the West Coast.
Blue Origin formed a national team to offer a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024.
On 2019-10-22, Jeff Bezos presented a plan for Blue Origin to work with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper on a lunar lander proposal for NASA’s Human Landing Services competition.
Blue Origin will provide the Descent Element based on the Blue Moon lunar lander and its BE-7 engine.
New Shepard last flew on 2019-05-02 on an uncrewed mission designated NS-11 from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site.
On 2019-10-02 Blue Origin was increasingly unlikely to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle by the end of 2019 as the company worked to ensure the vehicle’s safety.
The hydrogen and oxygen liquefaction and storage technology funded to Blue Origin could be used on a lunar propellant production plant to convert water ice into liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for use by lunar landers such as Blue Origin’s proposed Blue Moon lander.
Blue Origin received the largest Tipping Point award of $10,000,000 to carry out a ground demonstration of technology to liquefy and store hydrogen and oxygen.
Blue Origin filed a pre-award protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on 2019-08-12 challenging the Air Force’s Phase 2 launch service procurement.
Blue Origin’s protest seeks to compel the Air Force to break the five-year Phase 2 block-buy into smaller lots of launches to create more frequent competitions and on-ramps for new entrants.
Blue Origin’s protest contends that the 2019-05-03 final request for proposals has unclear and ambiguous selection criteria and discriminates against new competitors by asking bidders to offer a backup launch vehicle.
In Phase 2 the Air Force will select two launch providers from a field of four competitors that includes United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
Blue Origin received $500,000,000 in Air Force funding to help defray the expense of meeting the government’s unique launch requirements.