PATENTS and Invention Disclosures authored by John Smay

U. S. Patent 4,437,047;  System for Autonomous Earth-Pointing Acquisition of a Dual-Spin Satellite, March 13, 1984

U. S. Patent 4,837,699;  Method For Controlling The Spin Axis Attitude of a Spinning Spacecraft, June 6, 1989

U. S. Patent 4,824,052;  Nutation Sensor and Nutation Control System for a Dual-Spin Stabilized Satellite, April 25, 1989

U. S. Patent 5,080,307; Spacecraft Attitude Pointing Acquisition

System, January 14, 1992

European application filed May 5, 1991.

Canadian Patent 2,040,463 issued Oct. 17, 1995.

U. S. Patent 5,308,025; Spacecraft Spin Axis Capture System and Method, May 3, 1994

U. S. Patent 5,681,012; Spacecraft Control with Skewed Control Moment Gyros, October 28, 1997.

U. S. Patent 5,611,505; Spacecraft Energy Storage, Attitude Steering, and Momentum Management System, March 18, 1997.

PD-93410, European application filed Nov. 15, 95.

U. S. Patent 5,692,707; Universal Spacecraft Attitude Steering Control System, December 2, 1997.

European application filed May 4, 1996.

U. S. Patent 6,113,033; Combined Flywheel Energy Storage and Attitude Control Apparatus for Spacecraft, September 5, 2000.

U. S. Patent 6,311,931; Bi-Directional Momentum Bias Spacecraft Attitude Control, November 6, 2001.

U. S. Patent 6,347,262; Minimum Fuel Attitude Controller for Spinning Spacecraft, February 12, 2002.