US Patent Issued to Launchspace Technologies on June 23 for "Space domain awareness sensor and related methods and systems" (Florida, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,259, issued on June 23, was assigned to Launchspace Technologies Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Space domain awareness sensor and related methods and systems" was invented by John H. Bauman (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Chris Rollins (Upper Marlboro, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space domain awareness (SDA) system includes several sensor spacecraft, some in Earth orbit and others in cislunar space. Each sensor spacecraft can include a sensor payload of an active optical sensor (e.g., a laser emitter and laser detector) and an SDA processor. The processor detects, tracks, and characterizes resident space objects (RSOs) using the output f...