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Hypersonic Flight Testing Using Stratospheric Balloons
This technology is a novel test technique for characterizing entry vehicle dynamics via stratospheric balloon-dropped, free-flight testing. It uses stratospheric balloons to test hypersonic vehicles. This technique allows the vehicles to achieve hypersonic speeds through a combination of free fall and acceleration via rocket boosters after the drop....
Published: 10/7/2024
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Inventor(s): Stuart Craig, Kyle Hanquist
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
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Space Traffic Management Architecture for Managing Space Stations and Spacecraft
The technology is a proposed space traffic management architecture to coordinate space stations and spacecrafts to facilitate clean-up of space debris. The architecture involves a space platform network that coordinates actions with rules in a common permanent orbit for management and space debris mitigation. Additionally, this network will work towards...
Published: 10/2/2024
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Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Alton Zhang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking
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Modular Service Towers for Lunar and Mars Exploration
This technology involves the creation of modular service towers designed to support activities on the lunar and Martian surfaces. These towers are multi-functional, offering essential services such as lighting, power generation, and navigation. They also facilitate communication and computing for various lunar and Martian platforms, including robots,...
Published: 11/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Min Kang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Antenna, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Networking, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Wireless, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Telematics
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Rigid Tube Stabilizer System (RTSS)
The invention is a rigid tube stabilizer system (RTSS) and three-ring release system to deploy RTSS to prevent entanglement with a drogue parachute during main canopy deployment. The RTSS unit is placed on the front of an individual who hand-deploys the system, activating a rigid tube that disallows entanglement with the system webbing, promoting free...
Published: 10/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Trent Tresch
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
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Modeling and Control of a New Deformable Copter-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
This invention contains motion and control models for a deformable copter-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (DCU). These models expand a drone’s capabilities of safe and aggressive deformation in constrained environments and enable tracking control that is decomposed into force and altitude controls and presented as quadratic programming problems....
Published: 8/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Hossein Rastgoftar
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
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Method for Line of Sight Bias for Missile Guidance
This innovation uses a deep learning algorithm to learn a curvature parameterization to apply to the line-of-sight unit vector provided by a missile guidance navigation system. In one implementation the bias is computed using a deep neural network with a recurrent layer which allows the network to predict future target behavior from the history of target...
Published: 8/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software & Information Technology, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
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Shape Memory Alloy Tether System
The shape memory alloy reacts to changes in temperature by changing its initial shape into a predetermined (learnt) shape. This effect can be controlled by the system to perform a progressive envelopment of an intended target in a microgravity environment.
The system has no dependency on mechanical components. This avoids system complexity, reduces...
Published: 8/1/2024
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Inventor(s): David Vargas, Leonard Vance, Jekan Thangavelautham
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics
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Sequential Control of Electromagnets for CubeSat Docking Attitude Alignment
The technology is a new method of sequential control of electromagnets in the application of autonomous docking using two CubeSat (miniature satellites). This is done with the help of active illumination signals through LED lights that are installed on two different CubeSats which helps for target identification in both CubeSats.
Once the target identification...
Published: 8/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Virupakshan Vilvanathan, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Leonard Vance, Eniko Enikov
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences
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A Robotic Space Station System for a Modular Surveying Telescope
This invention outlines a new robotic observation space station concept. It is assembled in space by docking standardized CubeSats with telescope payloads, forming a rotating truss-like structure that is suitable for full sky surveys. Station reconfiguration is incorporated into operations to respond to multi-mission requirements and follow-up observations.
The...
Published: 10/23/2024
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Inventor(s): Athip Thirupathi Raj, Adrien Bouskela, Jekan Thangavelautham, Sergey Shkarayev
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics
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Small Satellite Docking Adapter for Power Transfer and Structural Applications
The invention is a small satellite docking adapter that can be used to assemble larger spacecraft, large structures, and transfer resources such as power. The docking adapter can be used to mate two objects in space that would otherwise be at different angles or are spatially misaligned. The invention also includes a software for CubeSats called Adapter...
Published: 8/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Nicolas Gross
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation
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