PlanetSpace protests & nice comparison of COTS proposals

NASASpaceWatch is reporting on today’s protest of the COTS awards.  There’s some nice commentary comparing the the different proposals.

PlanetSpace Inc – which lost out on NASA’s 3.5 billion dollar Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract – have filed an official protest. Last month, SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp) and Orbital were awarded the contract to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during the transition between Shuttle and Orion.

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Flight International on the COTS award

From Flight International:

NASA’s nascent commercial orbital transport system (COTS) is expected to go live late next year under a $3.5 billion programme. The programme’s aim is to provide more than half of the cargo needed to run the International Space Station in the post-Space Shuttle era.

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