US Patent Issued to MIPRONS on June 10 for "Spacecraft provided with low and high thrust propulsion system" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,536, issued on June 10, was assigned to MIPRONS SRL (Segni, Italy).

"Spacecraft provided with low and high thrust propulsion system" was invented by Angelo Minotti (Segni, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacecraft is equipped with a low and high thrust space propulsion system including at least one water reservoir (1) containing liquid water, a high thrust propulsion part and a low thrust propulsion part. The high thrust propulsion part has a high thruster including a regulation valve (V1) for drawing water from the liquid water reservoir (1), a device for splitting (2) liquid water into gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen, r...