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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2022
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Mohammed Faraz Admani, Redmond, WA (US);
Pieter Buysschaert, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew D. Roberts, Duvall, WA (US);
Garrett P. Simard, Seattle, WA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for transitioning a spacecraft from a power-saving state to a power-consuming state at a time after launch of the spacecraft on a launch vehicle. Because the spacecraft can detect conditions for transitioning to the power-consuming state, commands received via an umbilical connection to the launch vehicle, or detecting the presence or absence of such a connection, is unnecessary, thereby removing several technical barriers to eliminating such umbilical connections altogether.