US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on March 24 for "Hybrid constellation and flying object monitoring system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,627, issued on March 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hybrid constellation and flying object monitoring system" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite constellation (110) includes a plurality of artificial satellites flying on an inclined circular orbit for each of six or more orbital planes having a common orbital inclination and arranged so that south and north axes are mutually shifted in an east-west direction. The plurality of artificial satellites include eight or more artificial satellites for each orbital plane. Each of the artificial satellites includes a fore...