Microwave operated space vehicles

• US 3,114,517 A
• Filed: 05/12/1959
• Issued: 12/17/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William C. Brown
• Original Assignee: William C. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, William C.
• Application Number:
  US03/812,710
• Time in Patent Office: 1,680 Days
• US Class Current: 244/171.1
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/405 Ion or plasma engines per se F03H1/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/409 Unconventional spacecraft propulsion systems
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/415 Arcjets or resistojets
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/428 Power distribution and management
• CPC Class Codes: F03H 3/00 Use of photons to produce a reactive propulsive thrust
• CPC Class Codes: F03H 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/102 wherein the surfaces are of convex toroïdal shape biconical horns H01Q13/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 343/02 Satellite-mounted antenna

Claims

10. A SPACE VEHICLE, COMPRISING BODY MEANS, ANTENNA MEANS ON SAID BODY MEANS FOR INTERCEPTING INCIDENT MICROWAVE ENERGY, MEANS ON SAID BODY MEANS FOR CONVERTING SAID INTERCEPTED MICROWAVE ENERGY DIRECTLY INTO A FLIGHT-PRODUCING FORCE APPLIED TO SAID BODY MEANS, AND MEANS FOR DIRECTING MICROWAVE ENERGY INTERCEPTED BY SAID ANTENNA MEANS TO SAID CONVERTING MEANS.