{"id":2175,"date":"2023-09-10T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2023-09-10T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:30:08","slug":"blue-origin-awarded-nasa-partnership-to-turn-lunar-regolith-into-solar-power-systems-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/blue-origin-awarded-nasa-partnership-to-turn-lunar-regolith-into-solar-power-systems-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Awarded NASA Partnership to Turn Lunar Regolith into Solar-Power Systems on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35 million Tipping Point partnership to continue advancing its innovative Blue Alchemist breakthrough revealed earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Alchemist is a proposed end-to-end, scalable, autonomous, and commercial solution that produces solar cells from lunar regolith, which is the dust and crushed rock abundant on the surface of the Moon. Based on a process called molten regolith electrolysis, the breakthrough would bootstrap unlimited electricity and power transmission cables anywhere on the surface of the Moon. This process also produces oxygen as a useful by product for propulsion and life support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to NASA, a technology like Blue Alchemist is considered at a Tipping Point if the agency\u2019s investment can help grow the innovation into a viable commercial solution. Today\u2019s investment will result in a demonstration of autonomous operation in a simulated lunar environment by 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHarnessing the vast resources in space to benefit Earth is part of our mission, and we\u2019re inspired and humbled to receive this investment from NASA to advance our innovation,\u201d said Pat Remias, vice president, Capabilities Directorate of Space Systems Development. \u201cFirst we return humans to the Moon, then we start to \u2018live off the land.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35 million Tipping Point partnership to continue advancing its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[219,210,211,215,214],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","tag-indian-space-magazines","tag-indian-space-news","tag-space-magazines","tag-space-news-online","tag-space-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}