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[–] 3 points 1 year ago*

Don't worry, I'm here to hate accurately.

Ask the ESCAPADE team if this is a good idea. Mark 1 Pathfinder isn't launching this year, so Mark 1 with VIPER isn't launching next year. Now NASA gets to keep paying for storage and waiting and wondering.

Also, calling Pathfinder a CLPS program is a joke. Blue was doing it anyways, and NASA paid for a single payload to get landing plume data, which, given the track record, will just be crash landing data.

To be fair, Astrobotic Griffin 1 shouldn't have had a payload this valuable without being proven first, but a hypothetical Griffin 2 could have.

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