US Patent Issued to Astroscale Holdings on Feb. 25 for "Method and system for multi-object space debris removal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,043, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Astroscale Holdings Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for multi-object space debris removal" was invented by Michael Lindsay (Tokyo) and Takashi Iwai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rendezvous with an orbiting object comprising: launching a tug and a servicer into a client orbit; separating the servicer from the tug; and docking the servicer with a client. A system for rendezvous with an orbiting object comprising: a first spacecraft comprising a tug capable of towing a second spacecraft, wherein the second spacecraft is a servicer configured to dock with a tumbling client orb...