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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2022
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hisayuki Mukae, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/1007 (2013.01); B64G 1/1085 (2013.01);
Abstract
A reserve satellite cluster including a plurality of satellites stands by at an orbit altitude lower than an orbit altitude of a steadily operated satellite cluster in a satellite constellation. In a case where a satellite configuring the steadily operated satellite cluster has been lost, a satellite, existing around a lost orbital position that is an orbital position where a satellite has been lost in the steadily operated satellite cluster, among satellites configuring the reserve satellite cluster is injected into the lost orbital position in an orbit.