US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Oct. 28 for "Satellite constellation maintaining method, satellite constellation, orbital dropping method, and artificial satellite" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,370, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Satellite constellation maintaining method, satellite constellation, orbital dropping method, and artificial satellite" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a deorbiting satellite, which is one of artificial satellites belonging to a first satellite constellation, deorbits and drops from an orbit of a first orbital altitude zone, a second satellite constellation widens a relative angle of any adjacent two orbital planes of a plurality of orbital planes and thereby allocates a free orbit area in a second orbital altitude zo...