Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, is tired of the litigation from Jeff Bezos Blue Origin.
Blue Origin sued NASA over its decision to award the Human Landing Systems contract (HLS) to SpaceX. This left Blue Origin behind.
Ars Technica today reported that Blue Origin was the retained advisory firm behind controversial JEDI contract. This $10 billion contract for military cloud computing services was awarded to Microsoft by US Department of Defense.
Musk seems to feel it all.
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SpaceX CEO today suggested that we might zap [Bezos] on his head with our space lasers. He was responding to another Twitter user who asked if Elon Musk could hover a Falcon Heavy over Bezos' house for the entire day.
It is not known if Musk has any space lasers that could cause death. SpaceX's Starlink satellites have the latest version of laser terminals that allow them to communicate, but they are not intended to be used to headhunt litigious billionaires.
Recently, Musk has been shaming Bezos on Twitter numerous times. This indicates that the growing feud between the two richest men in the country isn't slowing down. Musk made a joke about the weekend that no amount of money could defy physics. Jeffrey Besos [sic] has demonstrated numerous times.
While SpaceX has been busy getting its Moon-bound spacecraft on the ground, Blue Origin as well as Amazon have focused a lot of their resources slowing down their rivals.
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Musk should spend some money on real lunar lander hardware instead of lobbyists, Musk said to Ars Technicas senior reporter Eric Berger. Berger broke the JEDI story today.
Blue Origin joined the lawsuit against NASA with the help of two shady lobbyists who were founding partners of Palla Advisors Sally Donnelly (and Tony DeMartino). Ars reports that both were consultants for Amazon before they took jobs at the Department of Defense.
The controversy began when JEDI contract competitors argued that they used their existing influence at Pentagon to influence the bidding process in favor Amazon.
Amazon recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject SpaceX's plans for amendments to its second-generation Starlink constellation. They claimed that they were too broad. SpaceNews reported this week.
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Amazon is currently working on Project Kuiper, its own broadband constellation. It's worried that SpaceX will have too much control over low Earth orbit or bend the rules in its favor.
SpaceX replied to the request in a public letter that was spotted today by Michael Sheetz, CNBC's space reporter. It called it a continuation to efforts by the Amazon family to prevent competitors.
Even the HLS lawsuit against NASA was mentioned in the letter.
Anyone who has ever watched Amazon or its siblings companies maneuver is familiar with Amazon's behavior. The letter adds a footnote to an Observer story about the ongoing lawsuit that NASA and SpaceX are facing over their efforts to send astronauts back to the Moon.
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READ MORE: Blue Origin's consulting firm is linked to a messy JEDI contract process [ArsTechnica]
Elon Musk casually roasts Jeff Bezos once again
