Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spacecraft servicing devices and related assemblies, systems, and methods
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Application No.: US16041709Application Date: 2018-07-20
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Publication No.: US10850869B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: James Garret Nicholson , Daniel Carl Treachler , Oliver Benjamin Ortiz , James Dulin Reavill , Benjamin Michael Hekman , Robert Bryan Sullivan , Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser , Mark Lieberbaum , Michael Joseph Glogowski , William A. Llorens , Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow , Peter Michael Cipollo
- Applicant: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Plymouth
- Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Plymouth
- Agency: Phillips Winchester
- Main IPC: B64G1/10
- IPC: B64G1/10 ; B64G1/40 ; B64G1/64 ; B64G1/00

Abstract:
Spacecraft servicing devices or pods and related methods may include a body configured to be deployed from a host spacecraft at a location adjacent a target spacecraft and at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft. The servicing device may include a communication device configured to receive data relating to the target spacecraft from a location remote from the spacecraft servicing device. The servicing device may include a coupling mechanism comprising at least one movable coupling configured to rotate the body relative to the target spacecraft when the spacecraft servicing pod is coupled to the target spacecraft. The at least one spacecraft servicing component may include at least one propulsion device positioned on a boom arm extending away from the body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190023422A1 SPACECRAFT SERVICING DEVICES AND RELATED ASSEMBLIES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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