Just weeks after Blue Origin’s first manned flight, with founder Jeff Bezos onboard, the area firm is getting ready to launch its New Shepard spacecraft once more. Liftoff is scheduled to happen at at 9:35 AM EDT (6:35 AM PDT) from the corporate’s launch website in West Texas. The flight’s NS-17 mission title is a reference to its standing as New Shepard’s seventeenth launch. You can watch the proceedings reside on the stream under. This time, there will not be any people aboard, nevertheless. Instead, the reusable rocket and capsule will carry a payload of NASA tech together with a LiDAR sensor and pc designed for lunar landers. 

The launch comes amid a brewing lawsuit filed by Blue Origin over the area company’s dealing with of the Human Landing System program. For this launch, it is capsule will even home experiments from educational establishments together with the University of Florida.