US Patent Issued to ARIANEGROUP on June 24 for "Orbital deployment module with a three-point space propulsion system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,004, issued on June 24, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Orbital deployment module with a three-point space propulsion system" was invented by Laurent Gerbe (Le Haillan, France) and Romain Delon (Le Haillan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-point propulsion system of an orbital deployment space module for at least one satellite including: chassis including exactly three first housings shaped to each receive a propulsion unit and at least one second housing shaped to receive a tank, at least one liquid fuel tank disposed in a second housing, and exactly three propulsion units, each propulsion unit b...