Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on an uncrewed experimental drill Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the takeoff live.

New Shepard is planned to launch from Blue Origin’s West Texas site Tuesday at 9:35 a.m. EDT (1335 GMT; 8:35 neighborhood Texas time) on a mission known as NS-13. You can watch it live here at Space.com, kindness of Blue Origin, or legitimately by means of the company, which is controlled by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Coverage will start 30 minutes before takeoff.

New Shepard is made out of a rocket and a container, the two of which are reusable. The booster descends for powered vertical arrivals like those performed by the first phases of SpaceX Falcon 9 orbital rockets, and the case makes delicate, parachute-helped touchdowns. Tuesday’s flight will be the seventh test mission for this specific vehicle, the 13th for the program generally speaking (consequently the name) and the first New Shepard dispatch since December 2019.

Tuesday’s flight was initially booked for late September, however a power glitch nixed that endeavor.

Blue Origin is growing New Shepard to convey payloads and paying clients on brief outings to and from suborbital space. Despite the fact that no travelers will be on board on Tuesday, there will be a lot of payloads — twelve, indeed.

One of them is NASA’s Deorbit, Descent and Landing Sensor Demonstration, which will test landing advances for the space organization’s Artemis program.

Artemis plans to land two space explorers on the lunar surface in 2024 and set up a long haul, practical human presence close by the moon before the finish of the 2020s.

Blue Origin has solid Artemis associations. The company drives the “National Team,” one of three private groups building up a competitor human landing framework for the program. (SpaceX and Dynetics are the other two.)

Different NS-13 payloads additionally incorporate new advances for spacecraft electronics from overheating and a framework for developing plants in microgravity.

The mission will likewise convey a huge number of postcards submitted by means of Blue Origin’s nonprofit association, Club for the Future, as the December 2019 New Shepard mission did.

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