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POST & AUTHOR & Vision
STS - Solar Thruster Sailor
- SSPS -
Solar Sail Power Station
Roller-Reefing
RSS - Ring Segment System LTH - Launcher Transport Head
L I N K S ENGLISH


P a t e n t s

DE000010234902B4
" Thruster-Solar-Segler mit Ring-Segment-Montage-System "
Thruster Solar Sail spacecraft with ring segment mounting system - a huge solar sail spacecraft, mountable in space only, with a huge Outer Ring as skeleton structure, pairwise Double Thruster Unit (DTU)-arrangements fixed to the Outer Ring.
filed July/26./2002, publication Aug./31/2006


DE10204004543B4
" Lade- und Dockingstation für Raumfahrzeuge, Weltraum Solarkraftwerk, Weltraum-Käscher "
Loading and docking station for spacecraft, space power plant, space scoop - the loading and docking station is a free volume sourrounded with a ring structure and free moving docking brackets, which hold daughter units inside the volume. Thought especially for solar sail spacecraft and other rather flat space ring structures.
The docking station allows to transport multiple daughter units in the center of a mothership solar sail spacecraft and also to hold and move payload inside the loading station with winches.
filed Jan./23./2004, publication Aug./26/2010


DE102005028378B4
" Verbesserte Thruster-Solarsegler und Thrusterring-Raumfahrzeuge (Segelsetz- und Reffvorrichtung, mobile, andockfähige Zusatztriebwerke "
Improved thruster solar sail spacecraft and ring spacecraft (sail setting and reefing -
This patent introduces "Roller-Reefing" to solar sailing, a technology which allows to launch or mount large solar sail (or solar cell) areas with a solar sail spacecraft and also to use it for fuelless station keeping, steering and pointing, without having to rely on thrusters for this low performance tasks. Mobile docking able thruster units as independant spacecraft docked in the docking station allow to give the spacecraft a boost and to refuel it by changing the docking able thruster units.
filed Jun./20./2005, publication Oct./21/2010

DE1020050062841B4
" Solarsegler-Launch-System, bestehend aus einem Launcher und einem sich selbst vergrößernden Solarsegler-Mutterschiff mit Dockingstation, solar elektrischen Antrieben und primärer treibstoffloser Lageregelung "
Solar-Sail-Launch-System, composed of a launcher, a self deploying solar sail mothership with docking station, solar electric thrusters and primary fuelless attitude control -
The first solar sail spacecraft design, which is self deploying and features large sail areas and a relative large docking station for daughter units, while it employs "Roller-Reefing" for fuelless station keeping and attitude control and Double Thruster Units for additional solar-electric-propulsion.
filed Dec./12./2005, publication Dec./10/2009
GB000002434345B
" Solar-sail-launch-system, comprising a launch vehicle and a solar sail mothership spacecraft with "roller-reefing"-ACS and solar electric propulsion. " -
The first solar sail spacecraft design, which is self deploying and features large sail areas and a relative large docking station for daughter units, while it employs "Roller-Reefing" for fuelless station keeping and attitude control and Double Thruster Units for additional solar-electric-propulsion. Priority of DE102005062841B4.
filed Dec./28./2006, publication April./09/2008
US000007913953B2
" Solar-sail-launch-system and solar sail attitude control system " -
The first solar sail spacecraft design, which is self deploying and features large sail areas and a relative large docking station for daughter units, while it employs "Roller-Reefing" for fuelless station keeping and attitude control and Double Thruster Units for additional solar-electric-propulsion. Priority of DE102005062841B4.
filed Dec./21./2006, publication Mar./29/2011

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US9150312B2


" Mobile Solar Sail Power Station and coupled solar power stations for space based power generation and transmission " filed Jan./9/2012. publication Oct./6/2015.
The main drawing of this application is Figure 5, in this case two couped solar sail power stations carrying a transmission unit between each other, whereby the transmission unit has it's own fuelless attitude control for pointing toward the target location. A unique feature of this invention are the connector units, which allow to connect the power stations to the transmission unit by simple docking operations.

POST & AUTHOR & Vision
STS - Solar Thruster Sailor
- SSPS -
Solar Sail Power Station
Roller-Reefing
RSS - Ring Segment System LTH - Launcher Transport Head
L I N K S ENGLISH