Blue Origin's rocket "New Shepard" flew and landed again
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Yesterday morning Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket flew with a test sample of a precision landing system designed for lunar missions.
This was the first flight of a rocket with a cargo fixed not inside the capsule, but outside.
The mission became the thirteenth for the New Shepard system and the seventh for this missile, according to the Blue Origin website.
The rocket climbed 106 kilometers, after which the cargo capsule and stage separated and landed separately, in total the mission lasted a little over ten minutes.
The test was performed under NASA's Tipping Point program, which is supposed to stimulate the development of key space technologies by private companies.
It is expected that based on the test sample, an automatic precision landing system will be developed for future flights to the moon under the Artemis program.
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