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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438261 | Stratospheric balloon utilizing electrostatic inflation of walls The high-altitude balloon has a skin made of nearly evacuated electrostatically inflated cells which provide thermal insulation to minimize heat loss from the gas in the balloon, while transmitting heat from the sun to heat the gas. The lower surface of the balloon ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7295884 | System and method of designing a load bearing layer of an inflatable vessel A computer-implemented method is provided for designing a restraint layer of an inflatable vessel. The restraint layer is inflatable from an initial uninflated configuration to an inflated configuration and is constructed from a plurality of interfacing longitudinal... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7163179 | Commercial service platform in space Affordable commercial service platforms in space focusing on customer affordability, quality microgravity services, innovation and combining five emerging space technologies. The invention provides an integrated approach to microgravity services in orbit. First, the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 4832288 | Recovery system A recovery system for decelerating/stabilizing and protecting space vehicles, boosters, astronauts, equipment and like payloads, including a paracanopy defined by a frusto-conical flexible uninflated skin forming a decelerator/stabilizer surface having a ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4770374 | Method and equipment for deploying an envelope around an object, in particular a satellite A method for deploying an airtight envelope (8) around an object (1) comprising providing a cylindrical, elongated envelope with two mutually opposite poles (3, 9) at each of its ends, inverting this envelope on itself and longitudinally pleating it accor... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4549464 | Inflatable, aerodynamic shroud An inflatable shroud allows a propulsion system that is stored in fixed length and diameter cylinders or silos to occupy all of the available packaging length. When inflated the shroud provides the desired aerodynamic shape to reduce drag and improve perf... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4518137 | Aerodynamic braking system for a space vehicle Liquid hydrogen stored aboard a space vehicle, and constituting a fuel for use in the vehicle's main rocket motor, is introduced, in a gaseous state, into an inflatable aerodynamic braking member, for moving it from a collapsed stored position outwardly i... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4504031 | Aerodynamic braking and recovery method for a space vehicle A space vehicle 10 is steered from outer space toward the earth's atmosphere main rocket nozzle end first. An inflatable braking member 28 is deployed around the vehicle 10 by introducing gas into it. The main rocket motor 16 is ignited to produce a subst... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4166597 | Stowable and inflatable vehicle A stowable and inflatable vehicle, adapted for use as a decoy space vehicle and as a replica of a relatively hot parent space vehicle. In addition to other components, the inventive decoy and replica vehicle includes: a telescoping central tubular member ... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4166598 | Vehicle enshrouding apparatus Stowable and inflatable apparatus for enshrouding a vehicle. The apparatus, in its most generic and most basic embodiment, includes an inflatable framework external of which is attached a multilayer superinsulating blanket shroud. The inflatable tubular f... | 09/04/1979 |
