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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
James Garret Nicholson, Broadlands, VA (US);
Daniel Carl Treachler, Leesburg, VA (US);
Oliver Benjamin Ortiz, Beltsville, MD (US);
Robert Bryan Sullivan, Chantilly, VA (US);
Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser, Reston, VA (US);
Michael Joseph Glogowski, Leesburg, VA (US);
William A. Llorens, Herndon, VA (US);
Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow, Great Falls, VA (US);
Peter Michael Cipollo, Arlington, VA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
Spacecraft servicing systems include a spacecraft servicing device and at least one mission extension pod comprising at least one spacecraft servicing component. The spacecraft servicing device is configured to transfer the at least pod to a target spacecraft in order to service the target spacecraft with the at least one spacecraft servicing component of the at least one pod. Spacecraft servicing pods configured to be supplied to a spacecraft with a spacecraft servicing device include at least one spacecraft servicing component.