US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 15 for "Satellite constellation, ground facility, and flying object tracking system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,647, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Satellite constellation, ground facility, and flying object tracking system" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite constellation (100) includes a plurality of artificial satellites (111 to 116) that number a multiple of 6. Each of the plurality of artificial satellites orbits in an inclined circular orbit a plurality of times a day. Normals to a plurality of orbital planes corresponding to the plurality of artificial satellites are shifted by an equal angle from each other in an azimuth direction. The plurality of or...