PDF points trigger delay in Blue Origin’s lawsuit towards U.S., SpaceX

America’s subsequent journey to the moon might all of a sudden be delayed bit because of…PDFs?

A U.S. federal decide has granted the Division of Justice a week-long extension in its lawsuit with Jeff Bezos’ house firm Blue Origin. The rationale? Giant PDF information.

The Amazon founder’s house firm sued the U.S. authorities over a profitable $2.9 billion moon lander challenge contract that NASA awarded to a competitor, Elon Musk’s SpaceX. SpaceX can also be named within the swimsuit.

In line with Blue Origin, there are “elementary points” with NASA’s choice. The corporate additionally claims that the company was supposed to supply a number of awards.

Nevertheless, the method has been delayed as a result of PDF issues. PDFs are a proprietary file format created by Adobe used primarily for paperwork. Attorneys for the U.S. Division of Justice say there have been a myriad of points associated to the PDF format.

In line with the DOJ, there may be greater than 7 GB of information associated to the case. Nevertheless, the U.S. Court docket of Federal Claims’ on-line system permits for under information of as much as 50 MB in measurement to be uploaded. This all quantities to “a number of hundred” PDFs, together with different file codecs that might be transformed to PDFs.

The DOJ says it additionally sought to transform a number of separate paperwork into particular person PDF batches however defined that these bigger information might trigger the add system to crash. “Now we have tried a number of alternative ways to create 50-megabyte information for extra environment friendly submitting, all with out success up to now,” the DOJ mentioned.

As a substitute of utilizing the net file system, the U.S. authorities will switch the paperwork for the case to DVDs.

Each Blue Origin and SpaceX agreed to the extension. NASA’s contact with SpaceX is at the moment on pause till Nov. 1 as a result of lawsuit. This newest improvement would seemingly lengthen that for one more week.

Area exploration is at the moment on maintain because of a lawsuit and a slew of pesky PDF information.