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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Miguel A. Estevez, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jason D. Flathom, Irvine, CA (US);
Gary E. Lemke, Torrance, CA (US);
Dennis Yoichi Nakasone, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Christopher P. Volk, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Elvis D. Silva, Denver, CO (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A spacecraft system includes a plurality of spacecraft in a stack. The stack has one or more layers, each layer includes at least two spacecraft, and each spacecraft is releasably coupled to one or more adjacent spacecraft in the stack. The spacecraft system also includes a controller configured to, for each layer, (i) cause the layer to release from the stack, and (ii) after the layer releases from the stack, cause the at least two spacecraft in the layer to release from each other.