US Patent Issued to ICEYE on May 5 for "Earth monitoring system and method of managing a satellite constellation" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,552, issued on May 5, was assigned to ICEYE OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Earth monitoring system and method of managing a satellite constellation" was invented by Rafal Modrzewski (Espoo, Finland), Pekka Laurila (Espoo, Finland) and Ignacio Chechile (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Earth monitoring system comprises a satellite constellation (310) and a schedule calculation module (302) located on Earth. The schedule calculation module (302) may be configured to implement a satellite management method receiving a request post-launch for a location to be imaged; recalculating an existing schedule of the satellites to provide an...