Aeronautics and astronautics – Spacecraft – Spacecraft formation – orbit – or interplanetary path
Patent
1994-02-16
1996-12-10
Kashnikow, Andres
Aeronautics and astronautics
Spacecraft
Spacecraft formation, orbit, or interplanetary path
342355, 342357, 455 121, 455 131, B64G 100, H04B 7185
Patent
active
055823670
ABSTRACT:
A special set of elliptical satellite orbits are described which allow preferential coverage of one parameter over another. According to a first modification, the orbits are retrograde, and preferentially cover one geographical location or time of day as compared with another. A second modification uses prograde orbits and allows the apogee of the orbit to be offset a constant amount with respect to the sun, to thereby cover a different time of day relative to the others. According to a special preferred mode of the invention, the apogee is always pointing towards the sun.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3340531 (1967-09-01), Kefalas et al.
patent: 3349398 (1967-10-01), Werth
patent: 3384891 (1968-05-01), Anderson
patent: 3497807 (1970-02-01), Newton
patent: 4809935 (1989-03-01), Draim
patent: 4854527 (1989-08-01), Draim
patent: 4872015 (1989-10-01), Rosen
patent: 4943808 (1990-07-01), Dulck et al.
patent: 5120007 (1992-06-01), Pocha et al.
patent: 5322248 (1994-06-01), Ragab
patent: 5326054 (1994-07-01), Turner
patent: 5433726 (1995-07-01), Horstein et al.
Draim et al., "Satellite Constellation for Optimal Northern Hemishpere Coverage" Oct. 1983.
G. V. Mozhaev, "The Problem of Continuous Earth Coverage and Kinematically Regular Satellite Networks II", Cosmic Research vol. 11.
A. H. Ballard, "Rosetta Constellations of Earth Satellites" IEEE Transaction of Aerospace and Electronics Systems, vol. AES-16, No. 5, Sep. 1980, pp. 656-673.
Beste (IEEE) "Design of Satellite Constellations for Optimal Continuous Coverage" May 1978, pp. 466-473.
Neyret et al. "The Intels at VII Spacecraft" AIAA 13th Mar. 1990 Los Angeles CA.
Benedicto (ESTEC) MAGSS-14: Amedium-Altitude Global Mobile Satellite System for Personal Communications Al-Band (Jun. 1992).
Dondl "Digital Network Oriented Mobile Radio Satellite System as an Integrated Part of GSM Cellular Radio System in Europe".
Brosius Jay
Castiel David
Draim John E.
Kashnikow Andres
Mobile Communications Holdings, Inc.
Mojica Virna Lissi
LandOfFree
Elliptical orbit satellite, system, and deployment with controll does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Elliptical orbit satellite, system, and deployment with controll, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Elliptical orbit satellite, system, and deployment with controll will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-419669