By smelting synthetic Moon dust, Blue Origin created solar cells

By smelting synthetic Moon dust, Blue Origin created solar cells

Whether or whether Blue Origin’s innovation reaches NASA is another story, given the business has a checkered relationship with the US government. Although NASA is supporting the Orbital Reef space station and will utilise New Glenn to launch a Mars scientific mission, it lost a critical lunar lander contract to SpaceX and lost its challenge to the $2.9 billion transaction. Blue Alchemy technology, no matter how innovative, is not guaranteed to gain business.