US Patent Issued to HITACHI on May 6 for "Space structure control system and space structure control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,355, issued on May 6, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Space structure control system and space structure control method" was invented by Makoto Ito (Tokyo), Tsukasa Funane (Tokyo), Koichi Watanabe (Tokyo), Yosuke Tanabe (Tokyo) and Hisatoshi Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The space structure control system includes: a space structure; an artificial satellite connected to the space structure; and a propulsion device installed on the artificial satellite and configured to control an orbit and an attitude of the artificial satellite, in which the space structure includes a film-like structure, a solar reflectance co...