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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G / ; B64G / ; B64G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244164 ; 244170 ; 244171 ; 701 13 ;
Abstract
A feedback motion compensation (FMC) component for use in a spacecraft having a payload. The FMC component includes a controller having sensor data inputs and an open loop dynamics model that is driven by actuator commands to produce a high accuracy attitude estimate suitable for payload motion compensation.