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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2003
William Henry Ailor, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Ronald John Bywater, Foothill Ranch, VA (US);
Leon Gurevich, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
William Henry Ailor, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Ronald John Bywater, Foothill Ranch, VA (US);
Leon Gurevich, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more small self-contained reentry breakup recorders are disposed within a spacecraft and each includes a sensor suite for collecting and recording collected and recorded sensory data during reentry breakup of the spacecraft, and includes a communications system for broadcasting the collected and recorded sensory data after breakup and before impact with the surface of the earth to a remote communication system for preserving the sensory data of the breakup as well as data relating to critical events occurring prior to breakup. An internal GPS receiver provides sensory positional data of the reentry and breakup positions.