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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 06, 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);
James Dulin Reavill, Irving, TX (US);
Benjamin Michael Hekman, Percellville, VA (US);
Robert Bryan Sullivan, Chantilly, VA (US);
Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser, Reston, VA (US);
Mark Lieberbaum, Arlington, 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 devices or pods and related methods may include a body configured to be deployed from a host spacecraft at a location adjacent a target spacecraft and at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft. The spacecraft servicing device may include a thruster assembly coupled to a boom arm, where the boom arm is configured to alter an orientation of the thruster assembly as the boom arm is rotated about the spacecraft body and a docking device.