Hyperbolic position determination

• US 3,209,357 A
• Filed: 01/10/1963
• Issued: 09/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theodore Wyatt
• Original Assignee: Theodore Wyatt
• Inventors: THEODORE WYATT
• Application Number:
  US04/250,993
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.2
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 3/00 Observing or tracking cosmonautic vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/06 Position of source determined by co-ordinating a plurality of position lines defined by path-difference measurements G01S5/12 takes precedence

Claims

1. A METHOD OF HYPERBOLIC RECONNAISSANCE COMPRISING, ESTABLISHING IN A KNOWN ORBIT A PAIR OF ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES, PROVIDING A STABLE OSCILLATOR ABOARD EACH OF SAID PAIR OF ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES FOR GENERATING A TIMING SIGNAL THEREWITHIN, RECEIVING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS FROM THE EARTH IN EACH OF SAID SATELLITES, RECORDING SAID EMISSIONS WITHIN EACH OF SAID SATELLITES AND THE TIME DERIVED FROM SAID STABLE OSCILLATOR AT WHICH THEY ARE RECEIVED BY SAID SATELLITE, TRANSMITTING THE RECORDED INFORMATION FROM EACH OF SAID SATELLITES, AND COMPUTING THE POSITION OF SAID EMISSIONS FROM SAID TRANSMITTED INFORMATION BY THE INVERSE HYPERBOLIC POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD.