Patents by Inventor Vyacheslav A. Meston

Vyacheslav A. Meston has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5526999
    Abstract: The spacecraft comprises a fuselage (1), a wing (2), a power unit incorporating two liquid-propellant launching rocket engines (3), two liquid-propellant boost rocket engines (4), six transverse-thrust rocket engines (5) located in the spacecraft fuselage (1) on a rotatable ring (6), solid-propellant emergency deceleration rocket engines (7), and solid-propellant additional boosting rocket engines (8), a payload compartment (9), a crew compartment (10), a tail unit with two vertical fin struts (11) a bottom tailplane (12), and a top tailplane (13). The fuselage (1) is provided with a movable center conical body (14). The spacecraft landing gear has a swivelling tail wheel (21). The crew compartment (10) is interposed between the fin struts (11) under the top tailplane (13). The spacecraft is provided with an orbital maneuvering system whose final control elements are in fact low-thrust rocket engines (22) and (23), and gyrodynes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Inventor: Vyacheslav A. Meston