The US Court of Federal Claims has released a 47 page document detailing its decision to drop Blue Origin's legal challenge against NASA.
The documents were shared by New York Times space reporter Joey Roulette.
The court found that Blue Origin did not have standing because it did not have a good chance of being awarded an award.
The court found that Blue Origin's proposal was non compliant and that it was priced well above NASA's available funding.
The background is here. NASA picked Blue Origin for its Human Landing Systems contract. Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos felt that his company was being unfairly excluded from the competition.
Bezos sued NASA, saying the agency didn't give his company a fair chance.
Blue Origin had argued that NASA was being unfair, but a Federal Claims court judge rejected the argument.
The full story of why the court made its decision will be told. The court argued that NASA provided a thorough, reasoned evaluation of the proposals and never acted against the law.
Blue Origin argued that NASA was giving the Musk-led company an unfair chance by waiving safety requirements.
The company argued that the plan by the company to get astronauts to the Moon required too many launches.
Blue Origin took a jab at SpaceX in a graphic it published in August, saying it only needed three launches to return astronauts to the Moon.
The competitor's plan was called out as "immensely complex and high risk" by the graphic.
Blue Origin was secretly proposing to get astronauts to the Moon using a much larger number of launches, meaning that its comms strategy was deeply hypocritical.
Blue Origin was prepared to show up to the table with a backup plan that sounded a lot more like the one that SpaceX had.
The judge saw through the ruse and called Blue Origin's backup proposal a "purely speculative, including hypothetical pricing and hypothetical technical ratings."
The piece of evidence sheds more light on Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA.
Blue Origin's lawsuit has delayed NASA's efforts to establish a launch system capable of returning the first humans to the lunar surface since the Apollo era.
A federal judge has shot down Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA.
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