US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 25 for "Systems, apparatus, and methods for momentum management for a spacecraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,618, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for momentum management for a spacecraft" was invented by Richard Lawrence Pepe (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Sadek Wagdy Mansour (Torrance, Calif.) and Haytham Mahmoud Elmasri (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and method for momentum management for a spacecraft are disclosed. An example spacecraft includes a body; an appendage moveably coupled to the body; a thruster carried by the body; machine-readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to detec...