The Boeing Company

Daniel E Rivera

Leora Peltz

Glenn N Caplin

John W Behrens

Frank O Chandler

Jeffrey J Cronick

Robert V Frampton

Thomas L Kessler

Michael Steven Lewis

Harold G Erickson

Russell Warren Keck

Roland D Mair

Nathanial C Cuddy

Timothy Mark Jones

Chris Gren McInelly

Mitchell Zachary Kotlik

Derrick Joseph Hanratty

Tushar Mayur Sampat

Scott A Kramer

Chris Gren Mcinelly

Nathaniel C Cuddy

Harold Glenn Erickson

Aircraft passageway storage units are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a storage assembly to be supported on a floor of an interior of a fuselage of an aircraft. The storage assembly has a corner to be adjacent a passageway of the interior of the fuselage, and the passageway is to extend around the corner. The example apparatus also includes a door coupled to the storage assembly. The door extends from a first side of the storage assembly to a second side of the storage assembly and defines a portion of the corner. The door is to cover an opening of a compartment of the storage assembly when the door is in a closed position, and the opening is to extend from the first side to the second side.

Aircraft passageway storage units

A slam latch mechanism employs an actuation lever rotatable from a first position to a second position and having a prong extending therefrom. A bolt, resiliently retractable from an extended position with the actuation lever in the first position, has a land with a slip surface engaging the prong in the second position to retract the bolt. A dampener extends from the slip surface by a margin to engage the prong in the first position to prevent metal to metal contact by the prong and slip surface with the actuation lever in the first position.

Slam latch bolt dampener

Aircraft passageway storage unit

An in-space spacecraft servicing system () includes a servicing spacecraft () and a propellant module (). The servicing spacecraft includes a client servicing system (), as well as navigation avionics () for independent flight operation and a servicing propellant tank (). The propellant module moves the servicing module from an upper stage drop off location and releases it in proximity to a client spacecraft () for a servicing mission. It has a propellant tank () with capacity for multiple missions and is used to refill the servicing spacecraft's propellant tanks between missions. Either or both the servicing spacecraft and the propellant module may have navigation avionics. The servicing spacecraft also has a universal docking adaptor () for different client spacecraft, and can convert a client spacecraft from non-cooperative to cooperative.

Spacecraft servicing vehicle with adaptors, tools and attachment mechanisms

Two part spacecraft servicing vehicle system with universal docking adaptor

Two part spacecraft servicing vehicle system with adaptors, tools, and attachment mechanisms

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Daniel E Rivera