US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 14 for "Star trackers for range determination in rendezvous and proximity operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,642, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Star trackers for range determination in rendezvous and proximity operations" was invented by Christopher Mark Cosner (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Pavan Daryanani (Torrance, Calif.), Joseph Daniel Khair (Torrance, Calif.) and Orion Derek Radtke (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space vehicle system includes a first star tracker disposed at a first location on or near the space vehicle, the first star tracker configured to obtain first images of a space object and stars and a second star tracker disposed at a second location on or near the space ...