MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617079030 A) filed by Northstar Earth & Space Inc. on June 26, 2026, for System And Method For Generating A Plurality Of Celestial Image Features From A Plurality Of Images Of A Sky.
Inventors include Bain, Stewart; Gollu, Narendra; Klimas, Peter; Leclerc, Jean-Claude; O'Connell, Daniel; Pelletier, Frederic; Phou, Naron; Tremblay, Pierre; Comeau, Ryan; Giammichele, Noemi; and Rajasekar, Priyatharsan Epoor.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
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.
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