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Is it accurate to say this is NASA's lander, or is this headline-bait? By my understanding, it's Astrobotic's lander, with a handful of payloads on it, some of
by myself248 3y ago
Is it accurate to say this is NASA's lander, or is this headline-bait? By my understanding, it's Astrobotic's lander, with a handful of payloads on it, some of which are NASA's.
I'm sure this headline A/B tests better for the same reason anything referencing "Elon Musk's SpaceX" does better than "SpaceX", but that's orthogonal to its accuracy.
- 0xffff2 3y agoIt's definitely AB's lander. That's the whole purpose of the CLPS contract that NASA used to pay for it. I'm on another NASA team that is "customer" of AB's for their Griffin lander. The degree to which AB's product is a black box to us is quite frustrating.