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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100019092 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A SPACECRAFT USING ATTITUDE SENSORS A system for damping nutation and removing wobble of a spacecraft spinning about a given axis is provided. She system includes a sensor configured to determine three dimensional attitude measurements of the spacecraft, a processor operatively coupled to the sensor and c... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090206204 | SPIN-STABILIZED LANDER The invention provides a novel, low-cost, spin-stabilized lander architecture capable (with appropriate system scaling tailored to the attributes of the target) of performing a soft-landing on a solar-system body such as Earth's Moon, Mars, Venus, the moons of Mars, Jup... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090152402 | Satellite, method and a fleet of satellites for observing a celestial body The invention concerns an observation satellite (1) which is intended to be placed in orbit around a celestial body (2), and which comprises a reflecting device (5), a receiving device (6), a linking mechanical system (19), the whole f... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20050133670 | Unified sensor-based attitude determination and control for spacecraft operations Systems and method of attitude determination and control for spacecraft include the use of a unified set of sensors for all phases of space flight. For example, the same set of sensors may be used for on-station operations and transfer orbit operations. The use of a uni... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050133671 | Star-tracker-based attitude determination for spinning spacecraft A method of determining the attitude of a spinning spacecraft is provided. The method includes stabilizing the spacecraft, initializing the attitude of the spacecraft using star tracker data, and estimating the attitude of the spacecraft. ... | 06/23/2005 |
