NASA Tipping Point Partnership with Blue Origin to Test Precision Lunar Landing Technologies

From the rim of Shackleton crater to permanently shadowed regions on the Moon, a NASA-developed sensor suite could allow robotic and crewed missions to land precisely on the lunar surface within half the distance of a football field. The technologies to enable exact and soft landings on the Moon and other worlds will undergo testing on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket booster. The rocket’s flight path is relevant to lunar landings, providing a unique opportunity to mature sensors and algorithms f