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公开(公告)号:US10382116B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-13
申请号:US16072694
申请日:2017-01-27
Applicant: Zodiac Data Systems , CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Nicolas Pasternak , Alain Thomas , Clément Dudal , Mathieu Llauro , Jean-Pierre Millerioux
IPC: H04L5/12 , H04B7/10 , H04B7/00 , H04B17/336 , H04B7/04
Abstract: The invention relates to a radio communication receiver receiving a radio signal (S) including a main polarisation (MAIN-POL) and a secondary polarisation (X-POL) orthogonal to the main polarisation (MAIN-POL), the receiver including: a unit (1) for receiving the main polarisation (MAIN-POL) and the secondary polarisation of the received signal, synchronised as a carrier frequency with the main polarisation (MAIN-POL); a unit (2) for cancelling out the secondary polarisation synchronised with the main polarisation (MAIN-POL) and configured to suppress, from the received signal (S), the interference due to the secondary polarisation (X-POL), the unit (2) for cancelling out the secondary polarisation including a filtering unit (21) that receives the main polarisation (MAIN-POL) and the secondary polarisation (X-POL) as input; a unit (3) for demodulating the filtered signal, located downstream of the cancellation unit and configured to calculate carrier frequency error information and to communicate same by feedback to the upstream receiving unit (1).
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公开(公告)号:US10336474B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-02
申请号:US15353388
申请日:2016-11-16
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Christophe Bonnal
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for deflecting space debris comprising steps of: launching (E2) a thruster (2) by means of a sounding rocket (1) at a target altitude close to that of the one or more debris to be deflected. generating (E3) by the thruster a gas cloud (G) above the sounding rocket.
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公开(公告)号:US20190113594A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-18
申请号:US16160904
申请日:2018-10-15
Applicant: THALES , CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Thibaud CALMETTES , Benoît VAUTHERIN , Yoan GREGOIRE , Christelle ILIOPOULOS
Abstract: A method for determining a phase bias in the signal transmitted by at least one of the radiating elements of an active antenna on the ground emitting signals into space using a space-division multiple access SDMA method, implementing a step, for each reference receiver, of comparing, to a threshold, the difference between the value of a measurement of the power received by each reference receiver and the sum, out of the radiating elements of the subset beamforming in the direction of the reference receiver, of the differences between the equivalent isotropically radiated power in the direction of the reference receiver and the free-space path loss of each radiating element of the subset.
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公开(公告)号:US10207824B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-19
申请号:US15103834
申请日:2014-12-15
Inventor: Jérôme Lemaire , Yann Miegeville
Abstract: A photovoltaic generator deployable for a satellite stabilized on three axes. The photovoltaic generator includes an assembly of planar panels articulated with respect to each other, and an attachment arm to the structure of the body of the satellite. In a first or launch position of the photovoltaic generator, the planar panels are folded one over the other. In a second or deployed position of the photovoltaic generator, the planar panels are fully deployed with at least a part of the planar panels being photovoltaic panels. At least one planar panel consists of a thermal radiator, with the radiative face thereof being orientated to be opposite the face of the photovoltaic panels carrying the photovoltaic sensors when the photovoltaic generator is in the deployed position. This radiative face is termed the “shade” face, and the face opposite the panel shaped radiator is termed the “sun” face.
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公开(公告)号:US10191158B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15200186
申请日:2016-07-01
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES , M3 SYSTEMS
Inventor: Nabil Jardak , Willy Vigneau , François-Xavier Marmet , Lionel Ries
Abstract: A receiver, and associated process, for tracking a GNSS positioning signal comprising a carrier modulated by a subcarrier and a spreading code, the receiver comprising: at least one tracking loop configured to calculate a first pseudo range from said GNSS positioning signal, a first discrimination circuit (521) configured to calculate an ambiguous discriminator value from the subcarrier and the spreading code of said GNSS positioning signal, a calculation circuit (522) configured to calculate a value representative of a tracking error of said tracking loop, a second discrimination circuit (530) configured to select one of said ambiguous discriminator value and said value calculated by the calculation circuit, and to generate a first non-ambiguous discriminator value, an amplitude of which is based on an amplitude of the selected value, and a sign of which is a sign of said value calculated by the calculation circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20180340829A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-29
申请号:US15986445
申请日:2018-05-22
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES , Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales
Inventor: Philippe HÉBERT , François LEMAÎTRE , Xavier ORLIK , Thibault DARTIGALONGUE
CPC classification number: G01J3/427 , G01N21/3151 , G01N21/39 , G01N2021/1793 , G01N2021/1795 , G01N2201/06113 , G01S7/4802 , G01S17/95
Abstract: Disclosed is a remote spectroscopy device of the LIDAR type including a module for generating an emission signal, an emission module for sending the emission signal toward a targeted material, a receiving module for receiving a response signal and a module for postprocessing of the response signal to determine a composition of the targeted material. The generating module includes at least two laser sources, each laser source being able to generate a laser signal at a predetermined wavelength, an upstream mixer able to mix the laser signals generated by the different laser sources, and a first modulator able to modulate the composite signal at a first modulation frequency to form the emission signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20180284291A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-04
申请号:US15936704
申请日:2018-03-27
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: François-Xavier MARMET , Nicolas CAPET
Abstract: The invention discloses a constellation of relay vehicles comprising a receiver of navigation signals and a transmitter of positioning signals to an area of service where a number of rovers manoeuver, wherein the position of the relay vehicle may be adjusted to optimize one or more of an SNR or a DOP index of the positioning signals. In some embodiments, the optimal configuration of the constellation of relay vehicles may be further defined based on priority indexes allocated to the rovers. The invention is applicable to terrestrial or underwater rovers, respectively serviced by aerial or nautical relay vehicles.
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公开(公告)号:US20180180741A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-28
申请号:US15846325
申请日:2017-12-19
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Nicolas CAPET , François-Xavier MARMET
CPC classification number: G01S19/22 , G01S19/24 , H01Q1/3233 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q3/30 , H01Q21/061 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/08 , H01Q25/002
Abstract: The invention discloses an antenna assembly that may be connected to a standard GNSS receiver. The antenna assembly comprises antenna elements that are configured to shape a radiating pattern which is directional in a direction of movement of the GNSS receiver and which has a FOV above the receiver that may be limited. The signals received in LOS will then have a much better C/N0 than the Non-LOS signals. In some embodiments, the FOV may be twisted leftwards or rightwards depending on a configuration of a vehicle carrying the receiver. In some embodiments, the antenna assembly is capable of operating in a plurality of modes that will differ notably by the FOV of the radiating pattern above the receiver. Switching between modes may be triggered manually or automatically and may be based on a determination of the prevalence and/or type of multipath reflections in the area where the rover moves. This determination may be based on sensor processing or a determination of a coarse position that will give to an index of multipath reflections from a database and/or a map.
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公开(公告)号:US09944411B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-17
申请号:US14791083
申请日:2015-07-02
Applicant: THALES , CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Isabelle Nann , Nicolas Mosson
CPC classification number: B64G1/1007 , B64G1/10 , B64G1/443 , B64G2001/1092
Abstract: A satellite comprises at least one first communication module, a repeater module, one or more antennas, at least one propulsion module and an avionics module, the repeater module comprising: a north first panel when the satellite is in an orbital position, an east second panel, a south third panel and a west fourth panel arranged respectively opposite the north first panel and the east second panel, the north panel and the south panel having widths XmcR in the east-west direction, the east panel and the west panel having a width or YmcR in the north-south direction; characterized in that: the value of the ratio XmcR/YmcR for the repeater module lies within the interval [0.84; 1.12], and the repeater module consists of a number of floors, and the value of Xmck varies as a function of the floor k and of its position in the repeater module.
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公开(公告)号:US20180067017A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-08
申请号:US15685832
申请日:2017-08-24
Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
Inventor: Jean-Marc DELVIT , Christophe LATRY , Carole THIEBAUT , Gwendoline BLANCHET
IPC: G01M11/02
CPC classification number: G01M11/0264 , G01J3/0297 , G01J3/28 , G01J3/2823 , G01J2003/2826 , G01M11/0207 , G01M11/0292
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for characterising at least one optical aberration of an optical system of an image acquisition device, the optical system having an associated optical transfer function that is dependent on the aberrations, the image acquisition device being capable of acquiring at least two images in a field of image capture in a manner so as to introduce a differential aberration between the two images, each image being defined by a digital image signal. The method includes the obtaining (50) of a first image and a second image of a same given zone of the field of image capture, the second image being acquired with a differential aberration (Δaberr) relative to the first image, each image acquisition having an associated optical transfer function. An optical aberration is characterised (58, 60) by the calculation of at least one parameter by minimisation of a functional expressed as a function of the first and second images acquired, from a modelling of the optical transfer functions associated with the two image acquisitions dependent on the aberrations of the image acquisition device as well as on the differential aberration (Δaberr).
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