Abstract: A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of satellites orbiting around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to input the image data for each image into a pre-processing software pipeline to generate for each image a contrast-enhanced image data replica of each image, and an enhanced image data replica of each image, to receive from an output of a known-unknown RSO split data processing pipeline, a determination that a candidate RSO is a known RSO stored in an RSO catalog, or an unknown RSO, and to assign to the candidate RSO based on the determination, an RSO ID of the known RSO listed in the RSO catalog, or a new RSO ID.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.

Abstract: The invention proposes an articulated arm for transferring fluid products comprising two tubular sections (7, 8+2) connected to each other by a rotating joint (3) with a horizontal axis, and one of which, mobile in rotation, has an angular reference configuration in which it is balanced despite the effect of gravity. A balancing device (4, 10) compensates for variations in the effect of gravity on this mobile tubular section as a function of the orientation of this vis-a-vis the vertical, it is mounted between a fixed reference portion and a linkage portion of the mobile tubular section which is at a distance other than zero from the axis of rotation; it includes a spring (10) which tends to return the mobile section to its angular reference configuration (it is then idle) and applying to the mobile tubular section a force which is approximately proportional to the distance between this linkage portion and the location of this linkage portion in the angular reference configuration.