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Wait why is that necessary?
by hackernewds 3y ago
Wait why is that necessary?
- cubefox 3y agoThey made a second bidding round where SpaceX wasn't allowed to bid because they already have contracts for earlier Artemis missions.
- wmf 3y agoObviously the second-lowest bidder will have a higher price than the lowest bidder. Arguably a second-price policy would be fair in this case but it may not be legal for NASA to award any more money than necessary.
- panick21_ 3y agoIts not that obvious. It all depends on how you do the selection and how you value the selection. SpaceX will have a huge payload capability that NASA didn't bid for. And therefore SpaceX gets no money for it. This is just how NASA choose to do this. They could have instead award contracts sized based on the capability both long and short term a projects add to NASA plans.