Watch Live As Blue Origin Attempts To Break Record With 7th Successful Launch Of Same Rocket

Jeff Bezos ’ Blue Origin is attempt to split up an exciting unexampled record in blank space locomotion by launch its New Shepard rocket an incredible seventh time , more than any other recyclable rocket . The launching , which was earlier schedule for April but was pushed back to September had to again be reschedule due to a world power provision issue . If all expire well it will found today at 9.35am ET from the fellowship ’s Van Horn launch facility in West Texas .

This is the 13th   launch of the New Shepard missions . NS-13 has deliver 12 commercial-grade load to space but it will also carry out some exciting science on its restitution to Earth . NASA ’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and Blue Origin are collaborating on the so - calledTipping Point partnership , and on its means back from outer space , NS-13 test preciseness technologies that will be all-important to a next lunar landing .

The experiment and its unlike element will be used to test a descent and landing computer that will identify the landing geographical zone , match it to the map , and measure both distance to the ground and fastness . Despite its repeated achiever , this is not an easy task to navigate on Earth . On the Moon , however , there wo n’t be a launch pad to revert to .

The rocket is look to land back to Earth 11 second after launch .

" The experimentation will avow how these technologies ( sensors , computing machine , and algorithmic rule ) work together to regulate a spacecraft ’s location and speed as it approaches the Moon , enable a vehicle to shore autonomously on the lunar Earth’s surface within 100 meters of a doom point , " said Blue Origin in astatement . " The technologies could allow future missions — both crew and robotic — to direct landing sites that were n’t potential during the Apollo missions , such as regions with varied terrain near craters . "

The data point collect will be used in the Artemis platform , NASA ’s challenging architectural plan to have the first woman and next military man go to the Moon over the next five years .