Patent ID: 6859769
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: B64G

Abstract:
1. A method for a spacecraft maneuver analyst to model orbital maneuver phenomena on a computer without needing to hard-code a software solution for new spatial objects, comprising: defining an original coordinate system within a graphic user interface of said computer; defining one or more parent spatial objects relative to said original coordinate system by selection of one or more pre-existing files from within said graphic user interface; and creating at least one new spatial object based on said one or more parent spatial objects, comprising: defining said new spatial object relative to said one or more parent spatial objects, comprising: finding said new spatial object in each of said one or more parent spatial objects; and performing a building operation to obtain a combined transformation based on said parent spatial objects to create said new spatial object, wherein said one or more parent spatial objects and said at least one new spatial object are related to orbital maneuver phenomena.