US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 13 for "Space traffic management system, debris removal method, mega-constellation business device, and OADR" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,379, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Space traffic management system, debris removal method, mega-constellation business device, and OADR" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a space traffic management system (500), space traffic management devices (100) individually mounted in a plurality of mega-constellation business devices and in a debris removal business device (45) are connected to each other via a communication line (200). The debris removal device (45) performs Active Debris Removal (ADR) against debris formed by a satellite managed by a first mega-co...