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Figured this should get a thread because there are 9 cool little spaceships in this category:

The big player (makes all the other robot landers, why not these):

 

And the new guys:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Xd the great said:

Feels like NASA is no longer the one to build the rockets, they buy launches.

They never were the ones to build them, but now they’re taking a completely hands-off approach to spacecraft design.

Although I really do wonder how many of these will fail and how many of those that succeed will be bought out by certain familiar names, as happens to start-ups in other industries.

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1 hour ago, DDE said:

They never were the ones to build them, but now they’re taking a completely hands-off approach to spacecraft design.

Although I really do wonder how many of these will fail and how many of those that succeed will be bought out by certain familiar names, as happens to start-ups in other industries.

Well, actually that is the whole point. Some will fail, some will succeed, and that is why NASA hired 9 startups to build new moon landers. Even if they were bought, the expensive R and D is done. The big names will provide the tooling at a low cost.

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2 hours ago, Xd the great said:

Feels like NASA is no longer the one to build the rockets, they buy launches.

What is great solution for problem NASA have. NASA should set goals and missions, but their implementation and selection of technology should be addressed by the private sector focused on profits. This approach will end up reinventing the wheel and never-ending research into new technologies that will never be used.

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12 minutes ago, Ozymandias_the_Goat said:

Some of these guys are even teams who participlated in the X-prize, such as master and moon express. 

Yeah those are the ones that stood out on me first.

 

In any case, good for them.

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2 hours ago, Xd the great said:

1 project for 2 prizes/contracts

To the best of my knowledge, Lunar X-prize is entirely cancelled, so this is their second chance.

Also not sure how BFR relates to small probes, sure it can launch a bunch but then you still need to make a bunch, which this thing is helping.

EDIT : only the cash prize was withdrawn.

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38 minutes ago, YNM said:

To the best of my knowledge, Lunar X-prize is entirely cancelled, so this is their second chance.

Also not sure how BFR relates to small probes, sure it can launch a bunch but then you still need to make a bunch, which this thing is helping.

What-at?

Cancelled?

Stupid google. Lets use IE.

Well, a bfr flyby with small probes sounds nice.

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28 minutes ago, Xd the great said:

Cancelled?

EDIT : Only the cash prize was withdrawn. It already ran from 2007 to 2018, pretty long.

But yeah, now they'll have a chance at another funding, which is good.

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On 11/29/2018 at 4:22 PM, tater said:

Figured this should get a thread because there are 9 cool little spaceships in this category:

There are 9 very cool illustrations of space craft.  Other than Lockheed, none of the companies have (AFAIK) flown any hardware of note.  Nor are these contracts to produce hardware, they're contracts to (essentially) write proposals.

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8 hours ago, DerekL1963 said:

There are 9 very cool illustrations of space craft.  Other than Lockheed, none of the companies have (AFAIK) flown any hardware of note.  Nor are these contracts to produce hardware, they're contracts to (essentially) write proposals.

True enough. Of the group, Masten and Firefly are the ones to watch (no need to watch LockMart, we just watched them land on Mars), I think. Masten has quite a bit of actual hardware.

The whole point of this round is to try and broaden the field of possible contractors for landers.

(some of the companies don't even have illustrations of spacecraft yet, lol)

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On 11/30/2018 at 1:19 PM, Cassel said:

What is great solution for problem NASA have. NASA should set goals and missions, but their implementation and selection of technology should be addressed by the private sector focused on profits. This approach will end up reinventing the wheel and never-ending research into new technologies that will never be used.

The only "profits" in the space sector so far, other than telecom satellites, is having NASA or the military pay for launches. In the end, it's always the taxpayer that foots the bill.

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1 hour ago, Nibb31 said:

The only "profits" in the space sector so far, other than telecom satellites, is having NASA or the military pay for launches. In the end, it's always the taxpayer that foots the bill.

Problem is how much money goes per single launch, right? Private sector is going to do same job cheaper, means less taxpayer money will be burned by rockets.

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