Control surfaces for use with high speed vehicles, and associated systems and methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8991767
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14508595

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Vehicles with bidirectional control surfaces and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a rocket can include a plurality of bidirectional control surfaces positioned toward an aft portion of the rocket. In this embodiment, the bidirectional control surfaces can be operable to control the orientation and/or flight path of the rocket during both ascent, in a nose-first orientation, and descent, in a tail-first orientation for, e.g., a tail-down landing.

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  • BLUE ORIGIN, LLC

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Featherstone, Mark Issaquah, US 11 88

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