Inventor
NEEDELMAN DAVID D
US15 patents
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BOEING CO
12 patentsUS8019544B2Sep 13, 2011
Real-time refinement method of spacecraft star tracker alignment estimates
BOEING CO20 citations92
US6766227B2Jul 20, 2004
Attitude-acquisition methods and systems for controlled spacecraft attitude
BOEING CO19 citations92
US6588708B2Jul 8, 2003
Spacecraft methods and structures for acquiring and determining power-safe attitudes
BOEING CO30 citations91
US6512979B1Jan 28, 2003
Lost-in-space stellar attitude acquisition using multiple star trackers
BOEING CO35 citations91
US6470270B1Oct 22, 2002
Lost-in-space stellar attitude acquisition using multiple star trackers
BOEING CO44 citations91
US7410130B2Aug 12, 2008
Star-tracker-based attitude determination for spinning spacecraft
BOEING CO17 citations82
US7062363B2Jun 13, 2006
Refinement of spacecraft angular velocity and attitude estimates using star data
BOEING CO7 citations63
US9423255B2Aug 23, 2016
System and method for mitigating an occurrence of a dry spot in a field of view of a star tracker
BOEING CO3 citations62
US7228231B2Jun 5, 2007
Multiple stayout zones for ground-based bright object exclusion
BOEING CO3 citations61
US7219014B2May 15, 2007
Method and apparatus for real-time star exclusion from a database
BOEING CO2 citations61
US7136752B2Nov 14, 2006
Method and apparatus for on-board autonomous pair catalog generation
BOEING CO6 citations61
US7310578B2Dec 18, 2007
Fast access, low memory, pair catalog
BOEING CO3 citations59