Patent ID: 9284074
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: B64G,F41G,F41H

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting one or more artificial objects in the vicinity of a planet, a planetoid or similar celestial body with one or more satellites, comprising: moving or flying an at least one satellite of said one or more satellites along an orbit around the planet, planetoid or similar celestial body, wherein said at least one satellite includes one or more sensors and said orbit is one or more of an equatorial orbit, an orbit close to an equator, a polar orbit, and an orbit close to a pole of the planet, planetoid or similar celestial body; and observing at least one of said one or more artificial objects with said one or more sensors against a cold space background, said one or more sensors pointing in a direction tangential to the planet, planetoid or similar celestial body.