| PatNum | IssueDate | Assignee | AssigneeLoc | Patent Title | Abstract |
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| 12391409 | 8/19/2025 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Rocket thrust structure assembly, and associated systems and methods | Aerospace systems, and systems and methods for assembling an aerospace system or another system or structure, are disclosed. A representative system can include a propellant tank with a dome-shaped head; attachment features on the dome-shaped head; and a thrust structure with legs attached to the attachment features. A representative method can include forming shims to be positioned between the legs and the attachment features. The shims can be formed based on digital characterizations of mounting faces on the attachment features within a reference coordinate system. The method can include pos... |
| 12392059 | 8/19/2025 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Self-adaptive fabric for space applications | Self-adaptive fabrics for space applications are provided. In one aspect, a fabric for use in space includes a structural fabric and a plurality of synthetic fibers woven into a self-adaptive fabric. The self-adaptive fabric is attached to the structural fabric. Each of the synthetic fibers includes a plurality of hollow cells containing a trapped gas. The synthetic fibers are formed of a material having a sufficient elasticity such that the diameter of each of the synthetic fibers is configured to increase when the environmental pressure decreases.... |
| 12392242 | 8/19/2025 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Lunar water collection device | Techniques and systems extract water from lunar regolith using microwave radiation and may also produce fuel from the extracted water. The system can distill the extracted water to remove impurities before electrolyzing the purified water into oxygen and hydrogen gases, which may then be cooled to form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. A portion of the system may reside on a lunar landing module. Another portion of the system may be affixed to a robotic arm that is extendable from the lunar landing module. This portion of the system includes a water extraction unit, comprising a cone used as ... |
| 12392856 | 8/19/2025 | VIASAT | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | Antenna systems and methods for tracking non-geosynchronous satellites | A method performed by a ground station antenna system for tracking a non-Geo satellite. A signal is received from the satellite and a signal quality metric associated with the signal is estimated. A first tracking mode is selected and implemented when the estimated signal quality metric is below a threshold, in which the signal is demodulated to obtain demodulated signal quality metric (DSQM) estimates, and then a first tracking operation is performed to point an antenna beam at the satellite based on the DSQM estimates. A second tracking mode is selected and implemented when the estimated sig... |
| 12394910 | 8/19/2025 | KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM MINERALS | Dhahran, | Satellite antenna with metal foil etched film layer | A dual feed slot-based circularly polarized wideband ultra high frequency (UHF) antenna for a cubic shaped satellite (Cube-Sat) is described. The UHF antenna includes a circuit board, a metallic layer, a hexagonal meandered slot, a capacitor, a first feed horn, and a second feed horn. The circuit board has a front side and a back side separated by a dielectric material. The metallic layer covers the back side of the circuit board. The hexagonal meandered slot symmetrically includes six legs of equal length and six vertexes. The capacitor is switchably connected to the metallic layer. The first... |
| 12395865 | 8/19/2025 | AALYRIA TECHNOLOGIES | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | Operation of sectorized communications from aerospace platforms using reinforcement learning | The disclosure provides a method of operating a communication network. The method includes receiving input data related to a state of the communication network and operation of the communication network. The method then includes determining a policy for the communication network based on the input data. The policy is a set of features for forming a plurality of communication links in the communication network over a time interval. The plurality of communication links provides one or more paths through the communication network. Determining the policy is based at least in part on utility values... |
