Satellite Avoidance Strips for Secure Laser Defense
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for avoiding satellite illumination by directed energy sources, such as lasers, are impractical for military missions due to the need for advance permission and the inability to handle classified satellite paths, which can lead to security concerns and operational delays.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for generating avoidance data that obscures the identification of a satellite's path by creating strips with specific parameters, allowing platforms to operate without revealing sensitive information about satellite positions, enabling real-time or near-real-time avoidance of directed energy interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If advance permission is provided for laser emission, then compliance with security protocols is improved, but operational response time deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores avoidance data for satellites in advance, so that when a laser emission is needed, the avoidance information is already ready. This allows immediate operation while maintaining security compliance, resolving the contradiction between advance permission requirements and operational response time.
2Measurement precision
If satellite path information is provided to platforms, then avoidance accuracy is improved, but security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a simplified representation (copy) of satellite avoidance data in the form of avoidance zones or cones, which contains sufficient information for safe operation without revealing the actual satellite path. This copy approach maintains avoidance accuracy while reducing security risks associated with disclosing precise satellite positioning information.
3Manufacturing precision
If detailed satellite path data is transmitted, then avoidance precision is improved, but information security deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential information needed for avoidance operations from the complete satellite path data. By taking out only the critical parameters (such as closest approach distance and timing) and discarding or obfuscating the full trajectory information, the system maintains avoidance precision while protecting information security.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus for generating avoidance data. Strips are generated for a path of a space object. The strips are positioned relative to the path of the space object. The strips have parameters that obscure an identification of the path of the space object to form the avoidance data.