Blue Origin New Shepard: the veil lifts

[Dr Mordrid]

Of the NewSpace companies the most secretive has been Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin, whose New Shepard spacecraft has been the subject of much speculation. We know that it'll land tail-first like the Apollo LEM lander, and that they've been in bed with the military and intel agencies.

Now an international patent application shows us that NS will use deployable aerobrake/control surfaces - Link....

This appears similar to the system used by the former Ansari X-Prize entry TGV Michelle-B