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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
Space Systems/loral, Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Erik Schwarz, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Edward Helmer, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Paul Anthony Briggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Douglas Lymer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alfred Heikal Tadros, Los Altos, CA (US);
Andrew E. Turner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Space Systems/Loral, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A spacecraft includes a plurality of deployable module elements, at least one of the deployable module elements including a robotic manipulator, the spacecraft being reconfigurable from a launch configuration to an on-orbit configuration. In the launch configuration, the deployable module elements are disposed in a launch vehicle in a first arrangement. In the on-orbit configuration, the deployable module elements are disposed in a second configuration. The spacecraft is self-assembled by the robotic manipulator reconfiguring the spacecraft from the launch configuration, through a transition configuration, to the on-orbit configuration. The deployable module elements may be in a stacked arrangement in the launch configuration and may be in a side-by-side arrangement in the on-orbit configuration.