US Patent Issued to ARIANEGROUP on July 28 for "Reusable space transportation system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,027, issued on July 28, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Reusable space transportation system" was invented by Marco Prampolini (Le Haillan, France) and Alexis Bourgoing (Les Haillan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space transportation system intended to be mounted on a space launcher comprising a re-ignitable propulsion device and steerable flaps located at a second end and a monitoring unit, each flap comprising an actuating means configured to modify the orientation of said flap, said monitoring unit being configured to control the activation of the propulsion device and individually control the ori...