US Patent Issued to MOMENTUS SPACE on May 19 for "Systems and methods for maintenance of a spacecraft constellation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,306, issued on May 19, was assigned to MOMENTUS SPACE LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for maintenance of a spacecraft constellation" was invented by Robert Erik Schwarz (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Yash Chandramouli (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for maintenance of a spacecraft constellation comprises a first spacecraft, configured to perform a primary mission while maintaining a primary orbit, and a second spacecraft. The second spacecraft is configured to perform the primary mission while maintaining the primary orbit and to determine a failure of the first spacecraft. The second spacecraft is further confi...