[TRENDING: Does coronavirus spread easily among children? | Gunman shoots 2 teens at skating rink | Michael Jordan forms NASCAR team with Bubba Wallace]Mounted to the outside of the rocket is hardware to conduct a deorbit, descent and landing sensor demonstration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.
It’s the first payload to fly mounted on the exterior of the rocket booster rather than inside the capsule, according to Blue Origin.The demo will test precision landing technologies for missions to the moon.
The test hardware will verify that the sensors, computers and algorithms work together to determine a spacecraft’s location and speed as it nears the lunar surface.