The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, had unveiled its Blue Moon lander concept in 2019 and has publicly campaigned for NASA to select it for future lunar missions. What this means: For SpaceX’s rivals, it’s a devastating blow-especially to Blue Origin. “We’re confident in NASA’s partnership with SpaceX.” 'This innovative human landing system will be a hallmark in spaceflight history,” says Lisa Watson-Morgan, NASA’s program manager for the lunar lander system.

(It also exploded a few times.) According to the Washington Post, documents suggest NASA was enamored with Starship’s ability to ferry a lot of cargo to the moon (up to 100 tons), not to mention its $2.9 billion bid for the contract, which was far lower than its rivals’. What changed: Since then, SpaceX has gone through a number of different flight tests of several full-scale Starship prototypes, including a 10-kilometer high-altitude flight and safe landing in March. NASA’s associate administrator (now acting administrator) Steve Jurczyk wrote (pdf) that Starship’s propulsion system was “notably complex and comprised of likewise complex individual subsystems that have yet to be developed, tested, and certified with very little schedule margin to accommodate delays.” The uncertainties were only exacerbated by SpaceX’s notoriously poor track record with meeting deadlines. The Prize has been awarded to works by writers such as Joan Perucho, the first winner with his novel Les aventures del cavaller Kosmas, Pere Gimferrer, Carme Riera, Nèstor Luján, Baltasar Porcel, Terenci Moix, Joan Barril and, more recently, Gabriel Janer Manila, Najat El Hachmi, Carles Casajuana, Imma Monsó and Sílvia Soler.SpaceX didn’t just receive the least amount of money-its proposal also earned the worst technical and management ratings.

First awarded in 1968, it has seen its most fertile period since Planeta reinstated it in 1981. Through its Catalan imprint, Planeta publishes the Catalan version of books written in Spanish by emblematic authors including Carlos Ruiz Zafón, with L’Ombra del Vent, El Joc de l’Àngel and La Trilogia de la Boira and Matilde Asensi, with Iacobus, La Sala d’Ambre, L’origen perdut, Tot sota el cel and Terra ferma.Įditorial Planeta awards the largest prize in Catalan literature, the Ramon Llull, with a level of dissemination equivalent to that of the Planeta Prize for Spanish literature. The success of Editorial Planeta is based on a catalogue that arouses the interest of a large number of readers.

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