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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
William Yerazunis, Acton, MA (US);
Avishai Weiss, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bingnan Wang, Belmont, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Spacecraft including a spacecraft bus. An additive manufacturing system of the spacecraft bus including at least one extruder for delivering feedstock to print an object outside of the spacecraft bus. A sensor for determining a pose of the spacecraft bus relative to an astronomical body. At least one processor in communication with the additive manufacturing system and the sensor, controls an operation of the additive manufacturing system as a function of the pose of the spacecraft bus, to manufacture the object outside of the spacecraft bus.