ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,488, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ICEYE OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Auxiliary data for controlling a satellite" was invented by Melina Koukou (Espoo, Finland) and Abhishek Agrawal (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of generating auxiliary data for controlling a satellite travelling in orbit around Earth, the method comprising: receiving tracking data for the satellite; applying an orbit determination algorithm including: estimating an orbit for the satellite based on the tracking data; and predicting, based on the estimated orbit, future ephemerides data of the satellite; generat...