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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2006
Applicants:
Douglas E. Chesser, Kula, HI (US);
Timothy R. Kilgore, Orange, CA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas E. Chesser, Kula, HI (US);
Timothy R. Kilgore, Orange, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A surveying device and a method for surveying a satellite and its environs is disclosed. The surveying device comprises a docking platform having an interface for physically coupling to a surface of a bus of a spacecraft and an imaging module, releasably coupleable to the docking platform via a semi-rigid tether axially extendable and retractable by command, the imaging module having an imaging sensor for collecting image data, the imaging sensor communicatively coupled with the docking platform via the tether.