This week, the US patent office issued 6,769 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all five thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. Boeing achieves low energy transfers in space travel Patent Number – US 9,284,068 The hybrid propulsion spacecraft may have a high thrust (HT) engine, such as a chemically powered engine and a low thrust (LT) engine such as a solar electric propulsion engine. It works by determining an optimal trajectory with low fuel/propellant use and fast flight times. The optimal trajectory includes…
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