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公开(公告)号:US20240253824A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-01
申请号:US18433097
申请日:2024-02-05
Applicant: Blue Origin, LLC
Inventor: Emmanuel John Grillos, II , Richard Donovan Jones
Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving a descending rocket, which may be at sea. The rocket may descend vertically with the nose higher than the nozzle. The rocket body may be angled as it descends. A boom arm with hooks may extend at an angle to the rocket body to engage a cable suspended by a semisubmersible platform at sea. The platform may include a dampened cable and lateral straps for securing and rotating the rocket into a horizontal orientation. The platform may receive a ship and purge water to elevate the platform for placing the horizontal rocket onto the ship.
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公开(公告)号:US20230339628A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US17660809
申请日:2022-04-26
Applicant: Blue Origin, LLC
Inventor: Emmanuel John Grillos, II , Richard Donovan Jones
Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving a descending rocket, which may be at sea. The rocket may descend vertically with the nose higher than the nozzle. The rocket body may be angled as it descends. A boom arm with hooks may extend at an angle to the rocket body to engage a cable suspended by a semisubmersible platform at sea. The platform may include a dampened cable and lateral straps for securing and rotating the rocket into a horizontal orientation. The platform may receive a ship and purge water to elevate the platform for placing the horizontal rocket onto the ship.
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公开(公告)号:US20240409243A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-12
申请号:US18809869
申请日:2024-08-20
Applicant: Blue Origin, LLC
Inventor: Emmanuel John Grillos, II , Richard Donovan Jones
Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving a descending rocket, which may be at sea. The rocket may descend vertically with the nose higher than the nozzle. The rocket body may be angled as it descends. A boom arm with hooks may extend at an angle to the rocket body to engage a cable suspended by a semisubmersible platform at sea. The platform may include a dampened cable and lateral straps for securing and rotating the rocket into a horizontal orientation. The platform may receive a ship and purge water to elevate the platform for placing the horizontal rocket onto the ship.
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公开(公告)号:US12139278B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-12
申请号:US17660809
申请日:2022-04-26
Applicant: Blue Origin, LLC
Inventor: Emmanuel John Grillos, II , Richard Donovan Jones
Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving a descending rocket, which may be at sea. The rocket may descend vertically with the nose higher than the nozzle. The rocket body may be angled as it descends. A boom arm with hooks may extend at an angle to the rocket body to engage a cable suspended by a semisubmersible platform at sea. The platform may include a dampened cable and lateral straps for securing and rotating the rocket into a horizontal orientation. The platform may receive a ship and purge water to elevate the platform for placing the horizontal rocket onto the ship.
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公开(公告)号:US20240035379A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US17815825
申请日:2022-07-28
Applicant: Blue Origin, LLC
Inventor: Emmanuel John Grillos, II , Brandon Block
Abstract: Techniques and systems extract water from lunar regolith using microwave radiation and may also produce fuel from the extracted water. The system can distill the extracted water to remove impurities before electrolyzing the purified water into oxygen and hydrogen gases, which may then be cooled to form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. A portion of the system may reside on a lunar landing module. Another portion of the system may be affixed to a robotic arm that is extendable from the lunar landing module. This portion of the system includes a water extraction unit, comprising a cone used as a cold trap. The cone may include cooling channels to keep the temperature of the smooth inner surface of the cone cold enough to trap particles of frost that attach to the inner surface. The frost is then scraped from the inner surface and collected.
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