Patents Assigned to Space
  • Patent number: 11442178
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for achieving space-based autonomous navigation of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) satellites, and relates to the field of satellite navigation technologies. The method includes the following steps: optimizing a DRO, and establishing a dynamic model of an earth-moon space satellite orbit; establishing measurement links, by a low earth orbit (LEO) data relay satellite, with an earth-moon space DRO satellite and a GNSS respectively, and measuring an inter-satellite distance for modeling and linearization; adopting an extended Kalman filter (EKF) method to process inter-satellite measurement data, and autonomously determining a position and velocity of the global navigation satellite system without depending on the ground measurement and control support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING CENTER FOR SPACE UTILIZATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Wenbin Wang, Yang Gao, Leizheng Shu, Jiangkai Liu
  • Patent number: 11440685
    Abstract: A capture interface is provided. The capture interface is configured to be rigidly affixed to an external surface of a recovery object and captured by a capture device. The capture interface includes a matte ferromagnetic surface of flat disposition and geometric outline, configured to facilitate capture by the capture device. The ferromagnetic surface includes a capture interface identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Altius Space Machines Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Goff, Joshua Charles Nelson, Shreya Udupa
  • Patent number: 11443439
    Abstract: An air-to-air background-oriented schlieren system in which reference frames are acquired concurrently with the image frames, recording a target aircraft from a sensor aircraft flying in formation, while concurrently recording reference frames of underlying terrain to provide a visually textured background as a reference. This auto-referencing method improves the original AirBOS method by allowing a much more flexible and useful measurement, reducing the flight planning and piloting burden, and broadening the possible camera choices to acquire imaging of visible density changes in air that cause a refractive index change by an airborne vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: U.S.A. as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Daniel W Banks, James T Heineck
  • Publication number: 20220284667
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present specification is an image processing method performed by an image processing device, the image processing method comprising the steps of: obtaining a first image representing a 2D image of 3D content observed from a first position in a 3D coordinate system and a second image representing a 2D image of the 3D content observed from a second position in the 3D coordinate system; detecting a first boundary line representing one boundary of the 3D content from the first image; detecting a second boundary line representing the one boundary from the second image; and determining a third boundary line for three-dimensionally expressing the one boundary in the 3D coordinate system using the first boundary line and second boundary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: ART & SPACE IT INC.
    Inventors: Bayng Jae PARK, Hee Geun KIM, Jae Min LEE
  • Publication number: 20220285567
    Abstract: A method for plating by means of a through-hole on a semiconductor wafer at least comprising the steps: providing a semiconductor wafer having a top side and a bottom side, wherein the semiconductor wafer has a plurality of solar cell stacks and comprises a substrate on the bottom side, and each solar cell stack has at least two III-V subcells, disposed on the substrate, and at least one through-hole, extending from the top side to the bottom side of the semiconductor wafer, with a continuous side wall, wherein the through-hole has a first edge region on the top side and a second edge region on the bottom side; applying an insulating layer to part of the first edge region, the side wall, and to the second edge region by means of a first printing process; and applying an electrically conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang KOESTLER, Tim KUBERA
  • Patent number: 11434018
    Abstract: An air inlet device for an air inlet of an aircraft. The air inlet device has air guide arrangements. An air guide arrangement has an inlet plate, an outlet plate, and pivot plates arranged therebetween. The outlet plate and the pivot plates can be rotated about a central axis of the air inlet device by adjustment rings, so that the air guide arrangement is transitioned from a linear state to a curved state, and vice versa. The air inlet device allows for selective switching between a state with low radar signature and a state with high performance of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Stangl
  • Patent number: 11434180
    Abstract: A system and method for producing fuel grain for a rocket engine horizontally with an additive manufacturing machine is disclosed. To begin, a fuel grain model is received. The fuel grain model is oriented in a direction of a central core axis and divided into two-dimensional layers with defined footprint areas. In accordance with the fuel grain model, a first layer is printed by applying successive fuel beads in a direction primarily parallel to the central core axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: VAYA SPACE, INC.
    Inventor: Kineo Wallace
  • Patent number: 11433337
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a two-phase separator device for separating condensate or particulate from a gas stream. In some implementations, the separator device removes water from air and may operate under micro-gravity conditions. The gas stream flows through the two-phase separator device and passes through a rotatable vane assembly along a flow path without being redirected in another flow path. Condensate or particulate in the gas stream is impacted by a plurality of vanes of the rotatable vane assembly, and the condensate is captured by features formed within the plurality of vanes. The captured condensate is accelerated radially outwardly along the each of the plurality of vanes towards a sloped inner wall, and further moved along the sloped inner wall in a direction against the flow path of the gas stream during rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Cognata, Brittany Lynn Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11434949
    Abstract: In an aspect there is provided a joint assembly 16 for panel board materials, comprising: a first member 14 comprising a tongue 22 extending from a surface 26 of the first member 14, the tongue 22 comprising a first groove 24 in a side 28 of the tongue 22; wherein at least a portion of the side 28 of the tongue 22 including the first groove 24 extends generally perpendicular to the surface 26 of the first member 14; and a second member 12 comprising: a second groove 32 in a surface 36 of the second member 12, the second groove 32 being arranged to receive the tongue 22; and a lip 34 extending into the second groove 32; wherein, in an assembled position, the tongue 22 is arranged to slot into the second groove 32 and the lip 34 is arranged to slot into the first groove 24 thereby to join the first and second members 14, 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Spaced In Limited
    Inventor: Benedict Isambard Statham Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11436812
    Abstract: A system automatically identifies objects in an environment based on a walkthrough video and an annotated floorplan of the environment. The annotated floorplan indicates locations and types of objects that are expected to be in the environment. The system receives the walkthrough video and generates a 3D model of the environment. The system applies a machine learning model to the walkthrough video to identify regions within frames where objects are captured. After identifying the regions within frames of the walkthrough video that include objects, the system modifies corresponding regions of the 3D model to include the identified objects. For each of the identified objects, the system determines a likelihood of the identified object being present at a location in the environment based on a comparison of the modified 3D model and the annotated floorplan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN SPACE LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Ben Fleischman, Gabriel Hein, Thomas Friel Allen, Abraham Botros
  • Publication number: 20220278817
    Abstract: Provided is a method of operating a repeater operating in a time division duplex (TDD) mode which comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received signal, determining a type of a communication period based on the detected synchronization signal and controlling an operation of a signal linearizer based on the determined type of the communication period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicants: SOLiD, INC. of SOLiD Space, HUNERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nagwon KWON, Jongkuan LEE
  • Patent number: 11431092
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a communications system includes a transmitter including a digital beamforming baseband section including a digital mixer, the digital beamforming section configured to receive an input signal to be transmitted, the input signal at a baseband frequency; and a modulation section electrically coupled to the digital beamforming baseband section, the modulation section including an up converter configured to receive a local oscillator signal at a local oscillator frequency. The digital mixer is configured to apply a baseband frequency shift to the input signal to generate a baseband frequency shifted input signal at a different frequency from the baseband frequency. The up converter is configured to up convert the baseband frequency shifted input signal based on the local oscillator signal to generate a modulated signal at a carrier frequency, wherein the local oscillator frequency is different from the carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: David Francois Jacquet, Marc Gens, Paul Lee Pearson, Pascal Triaire
  • Patent number: 11432252
    Abstract: A system for synchronizing transceivers which includes a first and second plurality of transceivers. The first plurality of transceivers are arranged at fixed positions with respect to each other. One of the first plurality of transceivers is configured to transmit a first wideband signal. The second plurality of transceivers are arranged at fixed positions with respect to each other. Each of the second plurality of transceivers is configured to receive the first wideband signal and to generate a respective one of second wideband signals based on the respectively received first wideband signal modified by a respective one of offsets which differ from each other, and to transmit the respective one of second wideband signals. The one of the first plurality of transceivers is configured to receive the second wideband signals which form the basis for synchronizing one of the first plurality of transceivers with the second plurality of transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Russel Que, Klaus Kittmann, Michael Von Voithenberg
  • Patent number: 11426953
    Abstract: A fiber composite laying device for producing a fiber composite scrim for forming a fiber composite component has a laying head which is designed or configured to continuously supply a reinforcement fiber band, a compaction roller which is designed or configured to receive the supplied reinforcement fiber band, lay the band on a laying surface and press the band onto the laying surface at an average compaction pressure, and pressure sensors which are arranged on the compaction roller and are designed or configured to detect a local compaction pressure on the laid reinforcement fiber band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Katharina Schlegel, Alois Friedberger, David Lopez-Bravo
  • Publication number: 20220268531
    Abstract: Systems and methods of manufacture of radiator fins. In one embodiment, a radiator fin made of carbon fiber is provided. In one aspect, the radiator fin is made of carbon fibers forming an interlaced pattern. In another aspect, the interlaced carbon fiber radiator fin is attached directly to a heat pipe, the heat pipe connected to a heat source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Atomos Nuclear and Space Corporation
    Inventors: Sandra Pitzak, Vanessa Jane Clark
  • Publication number: 20220269588
    Abstract: An effective system for verifying safety of an artificial intelligence system includes a feature quantity information accepting unit which accepts feature quantity information that includes values of plural feature quantities, that are assumed as those used in an artificial intelligence system, in each of plural first test data used for a test for verifying safety of the artificial intelligence system; and a judgment unit which judges a first combination, that is a combination that is not included in the plural first test data, in combinations of values that plural feature quantities may take, or a second combination, with it plural correct analysis results that should be derived by the artificial intelligence are associated, in the combinations of the values that the plural feature quantities may take.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki NOMOTO, Yasutaka MICHIURA, Shota IINO
  • Patent number: D962206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Jackson Shaffner, Anthony Sims, Michael J. Conte, Victor Q. Dang, David Milroy, Duncan Edwin Adams
  • Patent number: D962906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Jackson Shaffner, Ryan Kennett, Anthony Sims, David Milroy, Duncan Edwin Adams
  • Patent number: D962907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Jackson Shaffner, Anthony Sims, Ryan Kennett
  • Patent number: D962908
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Jackson Shaffner, Anthony Sims, Michael J. Conte, Victor Q. Dang, David Milroy, Duncan Edwin Adams