They Gave The Same Company Two Station Contracts And Now There's A Cupola

Let us review the timeline as KFD understands it. KeedMartin's docking hub is placed under spec review following the Basic Station port failure. The review is ongoing. The review is ongoing. The review is ongoing. Then: RESTLESS, a KeedMartin habitation module, is awarded a module contract and delivered to LSI 1 via Starship Heavy 4B. It docks. With an adapter. That bridges the very spec gap that was supposedly still under review. The spec review is now an on-orbit adapter and the adapter is docked.

OBSERVE, also KeedMartin, followed. A cupola. An engineer utility station. Spare solar panels. Batteries. EVA kits. Also docked. Also fine. KFD asked MSC public affairs whether the spec review process had formally concluded before RESTLESS was awarded. We received a PDF. We opened it this time. It contained sixteen pages of procurement narrative and one sentence that read: "Interface compliance was verified prior to award." Prior to award. KFD notes that this is different from "prior to the review that was ongoing for months."

Two modules. Same contractor. One review that apparently closed without a press release. Huddin Kerman walked outside to deploy RESTLESS arrays. That part we support unconditionally. The paperwork trail is a different matter. KFD will continue to publish routing slips as obtained.