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US 2013/0278757 A1Published application
Space survey system for monitoring near-earth space
AssigneeAstrium GmbH
InventorsBernard Martin, Francois Le Berre, Damien Caillau, Louis Leveque
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Abstract
A space survey system includes networked optical surveying systems designed to scan areas of earth orbit, in particular the LEO layer, arranged in a grid on the surface of a planet and further includes means designed to acquire images of objects traversing the areas scanned by the optical systems and calculation means designed to realize a measurement of the position time series of objects crossing the scanned areas by short integration over a fixed field.
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A space survey system comprising:
- networked optical surveying systems designed to scan areas of earth orbit arranged in a grid on the surface of a planet;
- means designed to acquire images of objects traversing the areas scanned by the optical systems;
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- calculation means designed to realize a measurement of the time series of positions of objects crossing the scanned areas by short integration over a fixed field;
- the optical systems being designed to scan the observation area 4 to 6 times faster than the transit velocity of the objects to be detected.
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The space survey and tracking system comprising:
- dedicated tracking systems;
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- means of connecting said optical survey systems and said dedicated tracking systems designed to transmit designations of objects coming from the optical survey systems to the dedicated tracking systems;
- the orbits of said objects then being determined precisely by the dedicated tracking systems using said designations as input data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.