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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Harold Rosen, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventor:
Harold Rosen, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a novel, low-cost, spin-stabilized lander architecture capable (with appropriate system scaling tailored to the attributes of the target) of performing a soft-landing on a solar-system body such as Earth's Moon, Mars, Venus, the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, selected near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt objects and even large human-made objects, and also moving about on the surface of the target solar-system body after the initial landing in movement akin to hopping.