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    NASA picks SpaceX rocket to launch asteroid threat hunter NEO Surveyor in 2027

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    1. PerAsperaAdMars on

      I remember when Falcon 9 launches cost NASA between [$50M](https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-groundbreaking-astrophysics-mission/) and [$69M](https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-asteroid-redirect-test-mission/), and everyone expected SpaceX with reusability to drop the price even more. Now they cost $100M. Is this the famous efficiency that Musk is trying to sell with DOGE?

    3. kenypowa on

      If SpaceX’s bid is cheaper than the 2nd lowest bid, then they could charge whatever they want and still make a profit while saving tens of millions for the taxpayer.

    4. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek55d1 “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
      |[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mejqsmo “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
      |[GEO](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek3fqw “Last usage”)|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)|
      |[L1](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek3fqw “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 1 of a two-body system, between the bodies|
      |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek3fqw “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
      | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
      |[NEO](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek3fqw “Last usage”)|Near-Earth Object|
      |[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mek9r4x “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1ix6dga/stub/mejwb39 “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

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    5. Hial_SW on

      Trump would just call any other rocket woke and NASA would have no choice but to choose SpaceX anyways. Here there just saving time.

    6. Winter_Dragonfly_452 on

      Yeah, that’s not a conflict of interest or anything with what’s going on in the US.