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US 10,246,200 B2Granted
Centripetal aerodynamic platform spacecraft
OwnerLawrence Ellis Williams, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
An aerodynamic platform or spacecraft including a habitable 1G centripetal force rotating gravity producing interior corridor within an aerodynamic shell and an aerodynamic drone booster launch system with reentry and reuse capability.
Claims6
A centripetal aerodynamic platform spacecraft, thruster engine propelled, space access system, having accent, orbital and reentry configurations;
- said system comprising:
- a) a spacecraft body;
- b) an exterior region of said spacecraft body;
- c) an interior region of said spacecraft body;
- d) a plurality of thrust propulsion engines comprising air intake and thrust exhaust conduit within said interior region of said spacecraft body;
- e) the exterior region streamlined on said spacecraft body, and configured to allow high speed flight and aerodynamic atmospheric reentry capability;
- f) a plurality of loading ramp doors and cargo bay doors disposed on said spacecraft exterior region;
- g) the spacecraft body, comprising a balanced rotational center of mass and aerodynamic lifting and control surfaces;
- h) the spacecraft body, comprising a flattened sphere or disk-shaped, lifting body;
- i) the exterior region of said spacecraft body comprising an aerodynamic shape configured to enable airplane operational utility and a spacecraft hull maintaining habitable interiors;
- said exterior region comprising an aerodynamic flattened sphere profile;
- j) the interior region of said spacecraft body having a lifting body interior circumference boundary(s) that shapes the spacecraft hull of said spacecraft;
- k) the interior region of said spacecraft body is configured to simulate a desired percentage(s) of earth's 1G gravity when said lifting body interior circumference boundary(s) is attached within the interior region and is in full spacecraft body rotation, spinning about a vertical -Z- axis at a point in space, in obit or when transporting humans in space;
- l) the interior region of said spacecraft body comprising aerospace navigation utility systems, engine instrumentation, energy storage, life support systems, electrical storage and generation and fuel storage around a central cargo bay flanked by the plurality of thrust propulsion engines;
- m) the plurality of said thrust propulsion engines comprising one or more forward-front interior cased, vertical lift, downward directed thrust engines and a plurality of interior cased rear-aft directed thrust engines having horizontal to vertical nozzle pivot thrust capability;
- n) a plurality of fuel and oxidizer storage disposed within the spacecraft body;
- o) an aerodynamic circular shaped ring wing with integral vertical stabilizers on an underside of said exterior region of said spacecraft body;
- p) a plurality of engine air intake protection door(s) and recessed aerodynamic combustion air inlet(s) disposed on said spacecraft body;
- q) a plurality of retractable landing gear, disposed on a lower exterior region of the spacecraft body;
- r) plurality of maneuvering thrusters disposed on the said exterior region;
- s) a prelaunch compatible curved saddling common wing connecting two boosters comprising a releasable connection assembly;
- t) a heavy lift vertical booster prelaunch connecting means comprising a prelaunch booster connection assembly and in flight stage separation guide rail assembly for heavy lift booster launching;
- and
- u) a track with an alignment system configured to eliminate full body rotation of said spacecraft body.
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