05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
.... NASA will resume work with SpaceX under the Option A contract as soon as possible,” the space agency said in a statement... judgment, and wish full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract.” His rival, Musk, also took to Twitter to comment on ...
16 January 2017
First international contract for commercial rocket launch signed by Denmark and China
Landspace Technology Corporation, a private aerospace business based in Beijing, has signed a contract with a Danish firm to become the first Chinese company to develop its own commercial rockets and provide ...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, signing of Space Policy Directive 1 in 2017. Investment fund basics While cost-plus contracting enables companies to take on technologically risky development efforts and allows more direct oversight from space agencies...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...hold contractors accountable, because the Agency had allowed work to begin, in some cases, without finalising the contracts. Gerstenmaier replied in part by stating that SLS “requirements are being refined in the context of an evolvable Mars campaign...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... how likely is that decision to be enforceable? Does the court have the power to reprogramme the smart contract? If the smart contract exists on, say, 2000 nodes across 50 countries, a court or arbitration centre can issue whatever decision it wants...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... kind of programme for NASA and there are two really important things to understand concerning the contract. It is a fixed-price contract, so we have agreed to work and deliver a mission at a specific price - and we don’t get paid until we deliver...
