Hughes Electronics Corporation

Vincent E Cascia

Parthasarathy Ramanujam

Brian M Park

Louis Rudolph Fermelia

Alexander M Benoliel

An antenna system having a rotatable and scannable reconfigurable shaped reflector with a movable feed system. The antenna system allows beam shapes to be rotated about an optimum axis and defocused while a spacecraft is in orbit in order to change a particular coverage pattern for the spacecraft.

Rotatable and scannable reconfigurable shaped reflector with a movable feed system

A friction retaining device for holding and releasing reflector panels of a satellite. The retaining devices having a friction bushing mounted thereon to prevent the reflectors from becoming disengaged from the clamp. The retaining device has a pair of opposing arms having upper ends that communicate with bumpers on the reflectors and lower portions that communicate with a release mechanism. Upon actuation of a pyrotechnic device, the reflectors are deployed. At the same time, the release mechanism disengages the lower portions of the opposing arms allowing them to remove the bumpers from the reflectors.

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Vincent E Cascia