Outward Technologies
Broomfield, Colorado company (legal name Blueshift, LLC, doing business as Outward Technologies) that develops lunar regolith-processing and construction technology, much of it using concentrated sunlight. NASA has funded it through SBIR and STTR awards (SBIR.gov lists its first SBIR/STTR award in 2019), including a 2023 Phase I and a 2024 Phase II for MORRE, a reactor concept to produce oxygen and metals from lunar regolith, a 2023 Phase II for a mirror array that heats regolith to build landing pads, and awards on regolith site preparation and landing-pad design. Its reported work is Earth-based; none of the sources reviewed describes Outward hardware flying to the Moon.
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Resources and evidence
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| Resource | Evidence | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Oxygen | Claimed | says it will |
| Metals (general) | Claimed | says it will |
| Regolith | Claimed | says it will |
Demonstrated
Earth-based work only. The SBIR.gov abstract of NASA SBIR Phase II LAMA (2023) states that its Phase I produced selectively solar-melted and liquid-phase sintered surfaces of a lunar highlands regolith simulant. Company-stated: NASA funded ($510,000, announced 2024-09-23) reduced-gravity testing of its regolith feed and deposition subsystem for the Sintering End Effector for Regolith (SEER). No NASA-published test results were retrieved, and none of the sources reviewed describes Outward flight hardware.
Claimed or planned
Outward describes itself with the line 'Bringing Access to Resources in Space' and lists oxygen reactors as processing equipment for industrial-scale oxygen production on the Moon. NASA award records on SBIR.gov describe: SBIR Phase I (2023, $156,492) and Phase II (2024, $899,952) for the Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor (MORRE), which applies vacuum metallurgy to lunar regolith to produce oxygen and high-purity silicon, aluminum, titanium, magnesium and other metals; SBIR Phase II (2023, $899,698) for the Lunar Articulating Mirror Array (LAMA), which concentrates sunlight to heat regolith for landing pads and infrastructure; STTR Phase I (2024, $156,494, with the Colorado School of Mines) on launch and landing pads built from bulk regolith; SBIR Phase I (2024, $156,432) for RE4CH, casting glass from oxygen-extraction slag; and STTR Phase I (2025, $156,500) for PRECISE regolith site preparation. The company says it was selected on 2026-04-14 for an STTR Phase II ($899,695) to continue the launch and landing pad work. Amounts and years are from the SBIR.gov portfolio read on 2026-10-29 (it shows the ten most recent awards).
Facts
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Company
- Status
- Activeas of 2026-04-14. Recent dated activity: a company news post dated 14 April 2026 announcing a NASA STTR Phase II selection for lunar launch and landing pad design, and SBIR.gov records of 2025 NASA Phase I awards. Not a corporate-register check.
- Roles
- Processing / ISRU
- Targets
- Moon
- Also known as
- Blueshift, LLC; Blueshift LLC; Outward
- Website
- outward.tech
Open evidence gaps
- Founding year is not stated in any source read; SBIR.gov gives only the year of first award (2019).
- Earlier oxygen work (a 2022 NASA SBIR Phase I 'Feed and Removal of Regolith for Oxygen Extraction' and a reported Phase II, contract 80NSSC22CA055) is described only by secondary sources; the SBIR.gov legacy award page was unreachable (DNS failure) on 2026-10-29 and the SBIR.gov portfolio shows only the ten most recent awards.
- The April 2026 STTR Phase II selection ($899,695) is company-stated; no NASA or SBIR.gov record of it was read.
- The census-listed SBIR 2026A lunar mirror array award and an aggregator-reported 2026 terramechanics Phase II were not confirmed from a NASA or SBIR.gov page.
- Contract numbers and periods of performance for the MORRE Phase I and Phase II were not read; the portfolio gives year and amount only (the company dates the Phase II announcement 2024-06-05).
- No test results for MORRE (oxygen or metal yields from simulant) were found in a NASA or company source.
Sources
12 excerpts from 4 publicationsOne web address counts as one publication.
Blueshift LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies proposes to continue development of a Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor (MORRE) for the production of high purity minerals and metals in addition to oxygen from lunar regolith.
Blueshift LLC d/b/a Outward Technologies proposes to develop a Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor (MORRE) for the production of high purity silicon, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and other metals.
The technology utilizes concentrated solar power to heat lunar regolith at a distance of meters to tens of meters from the mirror array.
generation of selectively solar melted and liquid-phase sintered surfaces of a lunar highlands regolith simulant
155 COMMERCE ST BROOMFIELD, CO, 80020-2243 USA
Year of first award: 2019
Blueshift, LLC doing business as Outward Technologies in partnership with the Colorado School of Mines propose to develop a launch and landing pad design tool for identifying optimal geometries, materials, and configurations of landing pads, landing pad aprons, and berms constructed from bulk regolith
Processing equipment for industrial-scale oxygen production on the Moon
Bringing Access to Resources in Space
- [10]News
BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, April 14, 2026 - Outward Technologies, in partnership with the Colorado School of Mines, has been selected for a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II award in the amount of $899,695 to develop optimized civil engineered designs for lunar launch and landing pads.
- [11]News
BROOMFIELD, COLORADO, September 23, 2024 - Outward Technologies was awarded $510,000 from NASA to continue development of its Sintering End Effector for Regolith (SEER) lunar surface construction technology through reduced gravity testing of a regolith feed and deposition subsystem.
- [12]News
Blueshift, LLC DBA Outward Technologies 155 Commerce St, Broomfield, CO 80020
Cite this record
SpaceMiningData, “Outward Technologies”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/outward-technologies.html. Record checked 2026-10-29.