Maybe its the fact that they’re soon going to be neighbors at KSC. Or, it could be a matter of bowing to the inevitable and a patent which was shaky at best, but whatever the real reason, Blue Origin has effectively conceded the dispute regarding its patent for landing a rocket on a sea going […]
SpaceX has received what appears to be good news in its challenge of Blue Origin’s patent for a landing a launch vehicle first stage on a barge. The challenge came in the form of an Inter Partes review, a proceeding in which a petitioner can ask for all or parts of a patent to be […]
Blue Origin Patent Illustration In June of 2010, Blue Origin filed for U.S. patent 8678321, which describes the process of landing the returning stage of a reusable launch vehicle onto a barge or floating platform at sea. The patent drew some attention at the time for two reasons. The first was that it seemed to […]
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