A satellite retrieval system with first and second pairs of coacting parallel bars are separately mounted in spaced parallel planes on the front of a spacecraft. The bars of one pair are at right angles to bars of the other pair, and together the two pairs of bars effect a variable aperture adapted to close around a rod extending from a second spacecraft to effect the capture of the latter.
Satellite Retrieval System
1981
7 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Manned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Mechanical Devices & Equipment , Patents , Bars , Payload retrieval (Sts) , Retractable equipment , Spacecraft docking , Spacecraft recovery , Apertures , Couplings , Latches , Orthogonality , Rods , Television systems , PAT-CL-244-161 , PAT-CL-244-115 , PAT-CL-269-152 , PAT-CL-269-242 , PAT-CL-269-244
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