US Patent Issued to ICEYE POLSKA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA on Dec. 9 for "Determination of spacecraft inertial properties" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,016, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ICEYE POLSKA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA (Warsaw, Poland).

"Determination of spacecraft inertial properties" was invented by Alberto Gallina (Warazawa, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining one or more inertial properties of a spacecraft. The method comprises: receiving data collected at different points in time during operation of the spacecraft. The data includes information indicative of: the angular momentum of a reaction wheel on-board the spacecraft, and the angular velocity of the spacecraft. The method further comprises: identifying changes in the angul...