Blue Origin New Glenn Landing Leg Demo

Blue Origin New Glenn Landing Leg Demo
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Blue Origin recently completed New Glenn’s first stage test of its six landing legs—a key area for reusability, which lowers the cost of access to space. The landing gear stow inside the rocket during flight, deploying as the booster gently touches down on our landing vessel at sea.

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[sigseroAC]

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[aviationist]

I'm glad to see that they're staying true to maintaining the most phallic designs in the rocket industry.

[victoriaconner]

I commend Mr. Jeff for his exceptional work at Blue Origin, maintaining motivation, consistency, and discipline is crucial to achieving your objectives. Congratulations on your success!

[JeffDM]

Seems odd to repeat it on slow-mo when the deployment is pretty slow as it is.

[BigDReal.]

Looking forward to seeing these things work in action in 2045…

[awaustinl]

I've never seen so many terrible comments from both sides. Haters, lovers, skeptics. Using a term I saw multiple times in this comment section. The only thing "flimsy" about this video is it's comment section full of backseat YouTube engineers.

Let me make some facts clear.

No it isn't "flimsy". It just isn't. If I open my car door at varying speed that doesn't make it flimsy. I equate the use of the word flimsy to I have no idea how the piston and the mechanism effects the motion of the landing legs and due to my lack of knowledge I am equating this motion to the simplest and most common word in my vocabulary which grossly understates the rigidity of the mechanism. It isn't an IKEA table that you assembled wrong, it isn't flimsy.

This isn't falcon 9 this is a much bigger rocket.

Yes it have 6 landing legs. ITS A BIGGER ROCKET.

Yes its slow its using a completely different piston mechanism than falcon 9 uses likely due to the fact ITS A BIGGER ROCKET and the design they choose gives them better stability and shock absorption.

This isn't fact but some guy tried to argue that wind would stop this landing gear from opening and that this test only worked because gravity was "pulling" those landing legs down. I just thought that was funny.

Yes those landing legs are more complicated than falcon 9s they are not the same rocket or landing legs.
While I do think they are over complicated I also know that those over complicated landing legs on paper would support a landing and all the forces associated.

[RickNeedham]

By the time they've fully deployed, New Glenn has crash landed

[timeydoesstuff]

I do love falcon 9... However that is one dam good looking landing leg design.

[hardcorebossstyles]

Those flappy door thingos at the top of the legs will be shredded off instantly

[FreakMC]

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[yecto]

Let's hope this company is underdog and competes with spacex and other space fairing companies

[Mars-evqg]

OK, that's not a bad design for the landing legs. I'm worried about the fact that some took longer than others to fully deploy. Hopefully, they get this sorted out before the first landing attempt.

[zapfanzapfan]

I hope that stance is wide enough for stability. Is it still gonna land on a ship or did they abandon that idea and go for land landing only?

[gjpercy]

I really hope to see more footage of this test. Initially there is a near-on side view of the leg on the right which reveals the action of the mechanism, but it cuts to a distance shot where there is no unobscured side view, so the actions of the mechanism are not clear. What I can see at 0:02 is that the upper bay door wobbles badly when it reaches the "open stop".
Also, when fully deployed the pivot point of the oleo strut (lower shock strut) and the upper actuating arm goes well past "straight" creating a bent compression column. I would have expected the oleo and upper arm to finish "straight" for maximum strength, unless the offset is deliberate and the upper arm is fixed by a torsion bar. Maybe build is not complete?
Six legs is more stable than four for the same leg length, but it looks hellishly complicated with many parts.

[emhome]

Geez, so much competence in the comments.

BO should have hired you all. But then again, I highly doubt they would.

[effervescentrelief]

Keep in mind this rocket is significantly larger than a Falcon 9.

[jackfranconi]

the connections between the leg and the hydraulic looks like a trouble area.

[canadaphil]

New Glenn is so much better than Old Bob...
but Future Stan is where it's at!

[MrGunderfly]

how much weight is there added due to the decision to tuck them away inside the volume of the cylinder like that? how much propellant do they actually save with the reduced drag vs the additional weight? also lots of little parts.. allot to go wrong or get damaged. not convinced that is a great landing leg design.

[Harald-]

Six legs? Must have to overcome a lot of wobble!