MUMBAI, India, March 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517011425 A) filed by Arianegroup Sas, Les Mureaux, France, on Feb. 11, for 'reusable orbital vehicle comprising a crew-evacuation vehicle extracted from the front.'

Inventor(s) include Prampolini, Marco; Bourgoing, Alexis; and Maretto, Federico Giovanni.

The application for the patent was published on March 7, under issue no. 10/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A reusable orbital vehicle (14) for a space transport system (10) comprises a fuselage (22) the shape of which widens in a direction extending from the front end (24) of the reusable orbital vehicle to a rear end (26) of said fuselage (22) and ...