US Patent Issued to PLANET LABS PBC on Sept. 15 for "Anisotropic aperture star camera systems and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,201, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PLANET LABS PBC (San Francisco).

"Anisotropic aperture star camera systems and methods" was invented by Michael Thomas Rubel (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spacecrafts are disclosed herein. The spacecraft can include a primary payload sensor, the primary payload sensor being aligned to capture images in a direction of a first axis, and at least one secondary imaging system for determining a position of the spacecraft, the at least one secondary imaging system being aligned to capture images in the direction of a second axis. The at least one secondary imaging system can inclu...