The Aerospace Corporation

Leon Gurevich

William Henry Ailor

Ronald John Bywater

One or more small self-contained reentry breakup recorders are disposed within a spacecraft and each includes a sensor suite for collecting and recording collected and recorded sensory data during reentry breakup of the spacecraft, and includes a communications system for broadcasting the collected and recorded sensory data after breakup and before impact with the surface of the earth to a remote communication system for preserving the sensory data of the breakup as well as data relating to critical events occurring prior to breakup. An internal GPS receiver provides sensory positional data of the reentry and breakup positions.

Spacecraft reentry breakup recorder

An adjustable multipoint docking system includes a plurality of adjustable grasping jaws that are aligned on a mounting surface and adapted to grab onto a wide variety of extending rings, such as conventional spacecraft adapter rings, of an on-orbit target spacecraft for various missions including spacecraft rescue, spacecraft transorbiting to a desired orbit, spacecraft transorbiting to a waste orbit, or spacecraft deorbiting.

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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, United States of America

Leon Gurevich