US Patent Issued to SPACEABLE on April 21 for "Method for tracking a space object using on-board radar and lidar systems" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,747, issued on April 21, was assigned to SPACEABLE (Paris).

"Method for tracking a space object using on-board radar and lidar systems" was invented by Benjamin Gigleux (Blagnac, France), Julien Cantegreil (Paris) and Henri Carron (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of tracking a target on an orbital trajectory by a spacecraft, the method comprising an acquisition phase which comprises the steps of activating a lidar, acquiring signals from the lidar system, determining target trajectory data from the lidar signals, wherein the spacecraft is engaged on a trajectory to approach or inspec...