US Patent Issued on Nov. 3 for "Ejection deployment and retrieval mechanism with repeatable unlocking and locking for tethered satellite and working method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,452, issued on Nov. 3.

"Ejection deployment and retrieval mechanism with repeatable unlocking and locking for tethered satellite and working method thereof" was invented by Ti Chen (Nanjing, China), Shuo Chen (Nanjing, China), Zhengtao Wei (Nanjing, China), Dongping Jin (Nanjing, China), Hao Wen (Nanjing, China) and Weidong Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an ejection deployment and retrieval mechanism for a tethered satellite with repeatable unlocking and locking and a working method thereof, the present invention includes a separation ejection docking assembly and a sub-satellite; t...