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BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, May 26, 2022 - Outward Technologies has been selected for negotiations of a NASA SBIR Phase I contract in the amount of $156,045 to develop a feed mechanism for reactors used to extract oxygen from lunar soil. Additionally, once oxygen has been extracted from the lunar soil, the feed mechanism enables the mass production of mechanical and structural components on the lunar surface using the byproducts of the oxygen extraction reaction.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, Feb 18, 2022 - Outward Technologies has been selected for award of NASA SBIR Phase II funding in the amount of $790,349 to develop a Sintering End Effector for Regolith (SEER). The technology under development could enable additive construction on the Moon using lunar soil as the exclusive building material. The SEER hardware feeds into Outward Technologies' core competency of powering high temperature thermochemical processes using concentrated solar energy.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, May 13, 2021 - Blueshift, LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies has been selected for negotiation of a NASA SBIR Phase II contract in the amount of $759,888 to develop multiphysics models of permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles. These improved modeling capabilities will further de-risk planned  missions to the Moon by helping to identify successful control  strategies and hardware designs for increased rover operability, ISRU  sampling, material handling, and surviving the lunar night.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, May 13, 2021 - Blueshift, LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies has been selected for negotiation of a NASA Phase I contract in the amount of $131,471 for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to develop and test a Sintering End Effector for Regolith (SEER). The SEER subsystem could enable more controlled and efficient sintering of lunar soil for additive manufacturing and construction activities on the Moon and feeds into Outward Technologies' core competencies of concentrated solar energy and in situ resource utilization for space applications.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, Sep 1, 2020 - Blueshift, LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies has been selected for a NASA Phase I award in the amount of $124,924 for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to develop physics-based modeling software of exploration and sampling equipment interacting with icy soil on the Moon. The Phase I award enables the development of high-fidelity models to aid NASA and its partners in designing and testing hardware to be sent into craters at the lunar poles.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, May 5, 2020 - Blueshift, LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies has been selected for negotiation of a NASA Phase II award in the amount of $749,941 for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to develop physics-based modeling software of rover wheels interacting with lunar soil. The Phase II award follows a successful Phase I project showing feasibility of high-fidelity models of lunar soil conditions which may be found at the lunar poles.

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, June 18, 2019 - Blueshift, LLC has been selected for negotiation and award of a Phase I contract with the NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for $124,893 to conduct software development related to soil-wheel interactions at the lunar poles. The Phase I project has a potential to lead to Phase II funding for continued development of these innovative modeling methods.