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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Robert Briskman, Rockville, MD (US);
Inventor:
Robert Briskman, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/242 (2013.01); B64G 1/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
An autonomous system for a satellite which calculates collision paths of debris from anywhere within the spheroid around the satellite by using its radar/ladar data and from data on its own orbit derived by onboard sensors such as star, earth and sun sensors or from stored data sent from its ground control station through the satellite's command subsystem. If a collision would be likely, the system calculates the minimum change in the satellite's orbit to avoid such collision and generates and executes commands for firing on-board orbital control thrusters to put the satellite in a suitable avoidance orbit.