US Patent Issued to HYBRID PROPULSION FOR SPACE on April 29 for "Hybrid propulsion unit for space vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,945, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYBRID PROPULSION FOR SPACE (Talence, France).

"Hybrid propulsion unit for space vehicle" was invented by Alexandre Mangeot (Talence, France), Sylvain Bataillard (Talence, France), Vincent Rocher (Talence, France) and Alexis Azoulai (Talence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid propulsion unit, for a space vehicle or rocket, includes an external body defining a combustion chamber configured to receive a block of solid propellant, a pressurized reservoir configured to receive a liquid propellant, and a nozzle to eject the combustion gases produced by the reaction of the propellants. T...