Even though I am highly skeptical about the future of the entire Starship project, due to the unreliable silica-tile-based heat shield, I've designed what I believe to be the only viable landing leg design, just to keep my mind occupied. It's a simple, reliable design driven by a jack screw actuator. If you need to land on uneven terrain, like on Mars or the Moon, you absolutely need adjustable legs, which makes all other options obsolete. Pneumatic or hydraulic-based designs are out of the question for too many reasons to list.
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Only a blind person coldn't see, that the tiles based shield is well "fried" !!! In best case scenario they could push it to about 70% reentry success with mandatory required complete refurbishment of the entire shield after each reentry. People on board is 100% out of question with this mildly said POOR factor of safety design. The tiles based shield concept is 100% doomed, if the goals are rapid reusability and human rated vehicle.