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Precise spacecraft camera image navigation and registration

  • US 5,963,166 A
  • Filed: 07/23/1998
  • Issued: 10/05/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A precise spacecraft camera image navigation and registration method for use with a spacecraft orbiting about a central body, comprising the steps of:

  • launching a spacecraft into an orbit about the central body, which spacecraft comprises a camera, and one or more sensors selected from the group including;

    a star tracker, a central body sensor, and a gyro; and

    selectively processing attitude data derived from (1) the camera, and the star tracker, (2) the camera, the star tracker and the gyro, (3) the camera, the central body sensor and the gyro, or (4) the camera, the star tracker, the central body sensor and the gyro, to point the spacecraft and point the camera.

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