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Its mostly a Musk trying to do things and Bezos trying to stop him. A war would consider them attacking each other. I have not seen a single lawsuit or complai

Its mostly a Musk trying to do things and Bezos trying to stop him. A war would consider them attacking each other. I have not seen a single lawsuit or complaint filed by SpaceX against BlueOrigin or Amazon. The certainty point out in their defense that Amazon is full of shit, but to my knowledge they have not issued complaints about Kupiter.

modeless 5y ago
SpaceX actually did file a lawsuit against the Air Force for awarding contracts to ULA which is using Blue Origin's engines. And lost. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musks-spacex-sues-u-s-air-force-over-rocket-building-contracts-filings-idUSKCN1SS2ST https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musk... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spacex-handed-loss-in-challenge-over-air-force-contract-idUSKCN26G2MA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spa... To some extent this is just how the business of government contracting is done. That said, I don't think it's right and Bezos is clearly worse. I doubt we'll see any more of these lawsuits from SpaceX for two reasons. One, their technology and execution advantage has become so overwhelming that the government can no longer justify stiffing them in contracts, no matter how many nice steak dinners the competition buys for the procurement people. And two, Elon now has the ability to raise nearly unlimited money from private investors for practically anything he wants to do, and doesn't need government money as much anymore. Which ironically lets them bid lower and get more contracts.
- panick21 5y ago
  Check my other comments, I am well aware of these lawsuits. That is why I specifically said: > I have not seen a single lawsuit or complaint filed by SpaceX against BlueOrigin or Amazon. I would argue SpaceX lawsuits prevented monopolistic process by NASA and Dod and allowed competition. BO profits from that and was able to compete and lost. I think these are qualitatively different from the lawsuits BO is launching.

modeless 5y ago

SpaceX actually did file a lawsuit against the Air Force for awarding contracts to ULA which is using Blue Origin's engines. And lost. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musks-spacex-sues-u-s-air-force-over-rocket-building-contracts-filings-idUSKCN1SS2ST https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-lawsuit/musk... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spacex-handed-loss-in-challenge-over-air-force-contract-idUSKCN26G2MA https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-airforce/spa... To some extent this is just how the business of government contracting is done. That said, I don't think it's right and Bezos is clearly worse. I doubt we'll see any more of these lawsuits from SpaceX for two reasons. One, their technology and execution advantage has become so overwhelming that the government can no longer justify stiffing them in contracts, no matter how many nice steak dinners the competition buys for the procurement people. And two, Elon now has the ability to raise nearly unlimited money from private investors for practically anything he wants to do, and doesn't need government money as much anymore. Which ironically lets them bid lower and get more contracts.

panick21 5y ago
Check my other comments, I am well aware of these lawsuits. That is why I specifically said: > I have not seen a single lawsuit or complaint filed by SpaceX against BlueOrigin or Amazon. I would argue SpaceX lawsuits prevented monopolistic process by NASA and Dod and allowed competition. BO profits from that and was able to compete and lost. I think these are qualitatively different from the lawsuits BO is launching.