From: jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com   
      
   In article ,   
   dumpster4@hotmail.com says...   
   >   
   > "On June 30, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted and published NASA's   
   > patent for a series of orbital maneuvers, which Business Insider first   
   learned   
   > about via a tweet by a lawyer named Jeff Steck.   
   >   
   > The technique isn't meant for large spaceships that carry astronauts or   
   rovers,   
   > but for smaller, more tightly budgeted missions tasked with doing meaningful   
   > science. And the first spacecraft to take advantage of this new orbital path   
   could   
   > deliver unprecedented discoveries from the far side of the moon.   
   >   
   > Called the Dark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder, or Dapper, the upcoming mission   
   aims   
   > to record, for the first time, low-frequency radio waves emitted during the   
   > earliest epochs of the universe ? when atoms, stars, black holes, and   
   galaxies   
   > were just beginning to form, and where scientists may detect the first   
   signals of   
   > as-yet-unseen dark matter."   
   >   
   > See:   
   >   
   > https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-patent-moon-travel-farsid   
   -lunar-orbit-dapper-dark-ages-2020-8   
      
   While I think it's bizarre that the patent office would grant a patent   
   for such a thing, I'm glad it's NASA that patented it.  Their patent   
   fees are reportedly very reasonable, so hopefully commercial companies   
   could make use of this technique without much expense.   
      
   Jeff   
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