Orbital Path Visualization Interface for Maneuver Data Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing visualization systems for tracking space objects, such as satellites, lack functionality for efficiently managing and displaying vast amounts of historical and real-time data, including photographs, to provide a comprehensive understanding of orbital paths and maneuvers.
Innovation Solution
A system and interface that integrates real-time and historical data from multiple sources, utilizing algorithms to consolidate and categorize satellite data, and generates interactive displays with synchronized graphs and overlays to visualize orbital paths, maneuvers, and maneuvers, allowing users to manipulate and adjust data for better understanding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If traditional visualization systems are used to track space objects, then basic positioning is possible, but the systems cannot efficiently manage and display vast amounts of historical and real-time data including photographs
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the vast amount of space object data into distinct categories including orbital parameters, maneuver data, photograph metadata, and visualization display data. This segmentation allows efficient management and processing of different data types through dedicated modules, resolving the contradiction between handling large data volumes and maintaining system complexity at manageable levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a longitude-time graph dimension that plots space object position against time, transforming traditional spatial tracking into a four-dimensional visualization (longitude, latitude, altitude, time). This dimensional expansion enables efficient representation of historical and real-time data trajectories without proportionally increasing system complexity.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive orbital data is tracked and displayed, then understanding of orbital paths and maneuvers is improved, but the interface becomes less manageable and easier to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates critical orbital information (path parameters, maneuver events, position data) from the complete raw dataset, presenting only the most relevant information in the main visualization interface. Detailed data remains available through on-demand access, maintaining interface simplicity while preserving information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization interface dynamically adapts its content and detail level based on user interactions, time ranges selected, and object types viewed. The system automatically adjusts the amount of displayed information to match current operational context, maintaining ease of operation while providing comprehensive data when needed.
3Measurement precision
If detailed path parameters are calculated and displayed, then analysis precision is improved, but the time required for data processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculations of orbital path parameters (semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination, longitude of ascending node, argument of perigee, true anomaly) and stores them in advance for frequently queried objects. This pre-computation enables rapid retrieval and high-precision display without repeating complex calculations, resolving the contradiction between precision and processing time.
Data Source
AI summary
A display system can be configured to receive, via a user interface, a first identifier associated with a first space object and determine a first maneuver of the first space object. The first maneuver can include a perturbation of the path of the first space object. Based on the first identifier and the first maneuver, the display system can identify one or more path parameters associated with a path of the first space object and generate a display interface. The display interface can include a longitude-time graph having a longitude axis spanning from a lower-longitude limit to an upper-longitude limit and a time axis spanning from the lower-time limit to the upper-time limit and an indication of the one or more path parameters.