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.
AUTONOMOUS SATELLITE ORBITAL DEBRIS AVOIDANCE SYSTEM
AUTONOMES SYSTEM ZUR KOLLISIONSVERHINDERUNG EINES SATELLITEN MT ORBITALEM SCHROTT
SYSTÈME AUTONOME D'ÉVITEMENT DE DÉBRIS ORBITAUX POUR SATELLITE
2019-05-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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