MUMBAI, India, July 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441054946 A) filed by Mujawar Zaara Muskaan; and Rashida Banu Mujawar, Hyderabad, Telangana, on July 18, 2024, for 'a space debris removal device.'
Inventor(s) include Mujawar Zaara Muskaan; and Rashida Banu Mujawar.
The application for the patent was published on July 11, under issue no. 28/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an autonomous system (100) for the removal of sub-10-centimeter orbital debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond. The system comprises an air tank module (102), a collector module (104), a deployable connector tunnel (112) forming a hermetically sealed debris transfer path, a laser alignment system (106) for axial coordination, an electromagnetic levitation system (108) for module separation and reattachment, ion propulsion systems (110) integrated on both modules for orbital maneuvering and positional control, and a centralized AI-based control unit (114) integrating an infrared imaging engine (114a) and a trajectory computation module (114b). The system also features a closed-loop gas recovery and re-pressurisation subsystem for sustainable multi-cycle operations. The system detects untracked debris, separating the modules to align on opposite sides of the debris, guiding, and propelling the debris centrally through the tunnel, capturing and compacting it internally, and reconnecting the modules to reset for the next cycle."
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