Thread by @joroulette

NASA "reluctantly agrees" to extend the stay on SpaceX's HLS contract by a week bc the 7GB+ of case-related docs in the Blue Origin suit keeps causing DOJ's Adobe software to crash and key NASA staff were busy at Space Symposium this week, causing delays to a filing deadline. lol

Under NASA's voluntary pause to SpaceX's contract — which it only did if Blue Origin agreed to move litigation quickly — the end date was November 1st. Now it looks like it'll be November 8th.

DOJ lawyers say the size of the case material from parties in Blue Origin's lawsuit is "extraordinarily voluminous, consisting of hundreds of individual documents and over seven gigabytes of data." They're asking the court if they can submit it all on a DVD instead

Update: Judge grants the DVD plan and the DOJ's new deadline to file case docs from Aug. 27th to Sept 3rd, but keeps the rest of the schedule as is. So SpaceX's stay is not extended to Nov 8th - it remains Nov. 1st.

Update 2: Blue Origin files a motion to amend the schedule, arguing the newly granted schedule doesn't give it enough time to view the DVD records before its deadline to respond, and tht the judge should accept a week-long delay for every deadline including SpaceX's contract stay

SpaceX — "which had not objected to the [DOJ/NASA's] proposed schedule..." — opposed Blue's motion, but judge later grants it, presumably expanding SpaceX's HLS contract stay to Nov. 8 (though the judge's schedule doesn't include that).