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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Blue Origin Manufacturing, Llc, Huntsville, AL (US);
Frederick W. Boelitz, Sammamish, WA (US);
Richard D. Jones, Kent, WA (US);
Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC, Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
Rocket tank liquid level determination, and associated systems and methods. A representative system includes a computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed, receive an image corresponding to a view of the liquid in the rocket tank, identify an edge between the liquid and a wall of the tank, and, based on at least one of a size, shape, location, or orientation of the edge, estimate a level of the liquid in the tank. In addition to or in lieu of determining the liquid level, the system can determine a characteristic of a sloshing motion of the liquid in the tank, and, based at least on the characteristic of the sloshing motion, direct operation of a forcing element that imparts a force to the rocket to at least partially counteract a force placed on the rocket by the sloshing motion of the liquid in the tank.