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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120024136 | METHOD FOR LAUNCHING A MISSILE An air-based vertical launch system is described by means of which ballistic missile defense can be achieved effectively from a large aircraft. A method for ensuring safe missile egress is proposed. A method for ensuring that the missile strikes the ballistic missile pa... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110272528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING CARGOES INTO SPACE A method for delivering space cargo including inserting one or more container spacecrafts (CSCs) into orbit. A CSC comprises a hull, a device for receiving cargoes (an artificial medium), a braking medium container, an arrangement for separating the cargoes and the brak... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20100326045 | MULTIPLE-USE ROCKET ENGINES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS Multiple-use rocket engines and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes launching a two-stage vehicle have a first stage and a second stage carried by the first stage. The first stage can be powered with... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100289342 | Space-Based Power Systems And Methods Power supply satellites may be launched to LEO and boosted to GEO using power generated on board from solar insolation. A cluster of power production satellites may be operated as a phased antenna array to deliver power to one or more ground-based facilities, which may ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100163683 | Space Elevator A freestanding space elevator tower for launching payloads, tourism, observation, scientific research and communications. The space elevator tower has a segmented elevator core structure, each segment being formed of at least one pneumatically pressurized cell. The pres... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100108819 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING AN ORBIT OF A SPACECRAFT A method is disclosed for designing an orbit of a spacecraft which allows the spacecraft to take a small-radius halo orbit near a Lagrange point while avoiding the prohibited zone where the spacecraft may be shadowed or might be prevented from making communication. The ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100051750 | System and method for space elevator deployment A system and method for the initial deployment of a space elevator using a tether, doubly spooled from each end, an inertial mass, beacon satellite and positional thrusters, whereby tether is de-spooled from geosynchronous Earth orbit altitude, using gravity and centrip... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090321578 | Planetary impact defense system A system for defending a planet having a satellite against impact from an incoming body includes an explosive system and a propulsion system. The explosive system is adapted for deployment on the satellite and detonation thereon with sufficient explosive force to produc... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090251773 | LOW ORBIT MISSILE-SHAPED SATELLITE FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL EARTH SURVEILLANCE AND OTHER MISSIONS A low orbit optical imaging satellite has a long thin satellite body housing an optical telescope arrangement. A major part of the telescope arrangement has its optical axis roughly parallel to the direction of elongation and includes a mirror arrangement deployed to di... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090230249 | Method of Launching into Operational Orbit an Artificial Satellite and Associated Propulsion Device A method is disclosed for placing a satellite in an operational orbit The satellite is equipped with its own satellite propulsion system as well as a detachable separate propulsion device The satellite and separate propulsion device are launched into a transfer orbit by... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090206204 | SPIN-STABILIZED LANDER The invention provides a novel, low-cost, spin-stabilized lander architecture capable (with appropriate system scaling tailored to the attributes of the target) of performing a soft-landing on a solar-system body such as Earth's Moon, Mars, Venus, the moons of Mars, Jup... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090152402 | Satellite, method and a fleet of satellites for observing a celestial body The invention concerns an observation satellite (1) which is intended to be placed in orbit around a celestial body (2), and which comprises a reflecting device (5), a receiving device (6), a linking mechanical system (19), the whole f... | 06/18/2009 |
