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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| D505105 | Skycrane landing system | 05/17/2005 |
| 5322248 | Methods and arrangements tailoring aerodynamic forces afforded by a payload to reduce flight loads and to assist flight control for the coupled system An arrangement for controlling the flight of a launch vehicle and a coupled payload, such a spaceplane, from launch to the separation of the payload from the vehicle. The launch vehicle is provided with controllable gimballed rocket engines and optionally... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5242135 | Space transfer vehicle and integrated guidance launch system A space launch system and a space transfer vehicle usable within such system. The space transfer vehicle includes a primary propulsion engine and attitude control system. A guidance system for both the atmospheric launch vehicle and the space transfer veh... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5141181 | Launch vehicle with interstage propellant manifolding An improved launch vehicle having a central vehicle stack with an upper stage, a lower stage and payload, and having one or more additional parallel burning stages burning in parallel with the lower stage. Interstage propellant transfer is provided from t... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5141175 | Air launched munition range extension system and method A device having pop-out wings and a guidance and control system is detachably mounted on a munition such as a bomb and is used to extend the range capability of the munition. Prior to launch, the wings are folded together. The control system is contained ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5031857 | Two-stage earth-to-orbit transport with translating oblique wings for booster recovery A two-stage earth-to-orbit transport includes an orbiter vehicle and a pair of boosters, each having a depolyable oblique wing located along a longitudinal axis of the booster. The wing is deployed in an oblique disposition in supersonic and hypersonic sp... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4834325 | Modular spacecraft system A modular spacecraft system adapted for orbital flight is capable of expansion by the connection of at least two substantially identical spacecraft modules, each of which is capable of independent operation. Each spacecraft module comprises a spacecraft b... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4834324 | Multiconfiguration reusable space transportation system A space transporation system comprises several different modular units usable in a plurality of different configurations for different payloads and space missions. The units include a first stage unit for providing primary propulsive force during launch, ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4756493 | Deployment system for space radiators A deployment system for controlling unfolding kinematics of radiator panels 26 of a space power system. The deployment system includes a plurality of forming mandrels 30 associated with a housing 38 of opposing generally triangular plates 40. Within the h... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4723734 | Space ultra-vacuum facility and method of operation A wake shield space processing facility (10) for maintaining ultra-high levels of vacuum is described. The wake shield (12) is a truncated hemispherical section having a convex side (14) and a concave side (24). Material samples (68) to be processed are l... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4697767 | Spacecraft subsystem support structure A structural system is used to hold a laser communications subsystem having a gimballed telescope mounted on a truss system. Optical equipment requiring high tolerances is mounted onto an equipment support assembly that is mounted within the truss system ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4667907 | Space based orbit transfer vehicle Disclosed is an orbital space transfer vehicle comprises essentially a composite hollow cylindrical body structure enclosing a spherical oxygen tank suspended and spaced from the inner wall of the cylindrical body structure, a hollow toroidal hydrogen tan... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4667908 | Multiple body handling operations on the space shuttle A method is disclosed for exchanging a payload module on a satellite comprising a control module and a detachable payload for a new payload module in the STS or space shuttle orbiter using one RMS or remote manipulator system. In the method after the spac... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4657211 | Spacecraft to shuttle docking method and apparatus A method is disclosed for docking a satellite to the STS or space shuttle orbiter with one Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The RMS is deployed and captures a fixture on the satellite. The satellite extends its mooring boom. The RMS manuevers the satellit... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4296892 | Spherical living module or space A substantially spherical human living module or space has a plurality of pontoons projecting from its lower hemisphere. It is preferably arranged to be self-propelled, as a vehicle, and the pontoons are preferably extensible and retractable. In a version... | 10/27/1981 |
