US 11,990,671 B2
Deployable electromagnetic radiation directing surface system with actuators
Mark Alan Bailey, Longmont, CO (US); and Mitchell Todd Wiens, Loveland, CO (US)
Assigned to M.M.A. Design, LLC, Louisville, CO (US)
Filed by M.M.A. Design, LLC, Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/402,407.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/065,617, filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0102847 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B64G 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/288 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/36 (2013.01)] 48 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system for extraterrestrial deployment, comprising:
one or more deployable support structures configured to increase in length;
an electromagnetic radiation directing surface;
a plurality of actuators, each coupled to the one or more deployable support structures or the electromagnetic radiation directing surface; and
a satellite body, wherein the electromagnetic radiation directing surface is coupled to the satellite body by the one or more deployable support structures and the electromagnetic radiation directing surface is adapted to be expanded by and is deployable from the satellite body by the increase in length of the one or more deployable support structures,
wherein the plurality of actuators is configured to modify an orientation of the deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system relative to a target external to the deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system.