US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on May 27 for "System and method for controlling a motion of a spacecraft in a multi-object celestial system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,102, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling a motion of a spacecraft in a multi-object celestial system" was invented by Abraham Vinod (Cambridge, Mass.), Avishai Weiss (Boston) and Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a motion of a spacecraft in a multi-object celestial system while avoiding an unauthorized entry into a keep-away region during a normal and an abnormal operation of the spacecraft. The method includes executing, during the nor...