Systems and methods for generating a plurality of celestial images utilizing a plurality of satellites

A method, comprising:

• instructing at least one imaging satellite in orbit around a celestial body;
• wherein the at least one imaging satellite comprises:
• at least one imaging device comprising:
• at least one imaging optical arrangement and
• a plurality of sensors defining a pixel array of plurality of pixels to detect light through the at least one imaging optical arrangement;
• wherein the at least one imaging optical arrangement is configured to have a field of view (FOV) to capture a plurality of satellite-specific images in a portion of a sky;
• wherein the at least one imaging optical arrangement is defocused to increase a positional detection accuracy of at least one celestial image feature detected in the portion of the sky, by spreading an area of each of the at least one celestial image feature over a predefined number of pixels in the pixel array;
• wherein the at least one imaging device is configured to perform, during a surveil of the portion of the sky, a continuous capture, at a predefined image acquisition rate, of the plurality of satellite-specific images of the portion of the sky to generate satellite-specific image data;
• wherein the continuous capture of the plurality of satellite-specific images during the surveil is independent of an expected presence of any of a plurality of celestial objects in the portion of the sky;
• and
• instructing at least one processor, configured to use the satellite-specific image data, acquired by the continuous capture of the plurality of satellite-specific images, independent of the expected presence of any of the plurality of celestial objects, during the surveil of the portion of the sky, to:
• capture, based at least in part on the area of each of the at least one celestial image feature over the predefined number of pixels in the pixel array, a plurality of temporal behaviors of a plurality of celestial image features based on a frame-to-frame feature overlap of at least one particular celestial image feature that appears in an image subset of successive satellite-specific images from the plurality of satellite-specific images;
• wherein at least one particular temporal behavior of the at least one particular celestial image feature is based at least in part on a corresponding acquisition timestamp of each image and the predefined image acquisition rate;
• and
• perform one of:
• generate, based on the at least one particular temporal behavior of the at least one particular celestial image feature and resident space object (RSO) data from an RSO repository database, at least one identifier, identifying, in the image subset, one of:
• the at least one particular celestial image feature is representative of at least one new RSO, or
• the at least one particular celestial image feature is representative of at least one existing RSO in the RSO repository database;
• or
• identify that each celestial image feature in a particular image in the image subset corresponds to at least one other celestial object from the plurality of celestial objects to determine that the particular image within the image subset lacks any RSOs.