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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott W. Tilley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Walter Gelon, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/10 ;
Abstract
In an electric propulsion system used for transferring a satellite to its operational orbit, a solar array adjustment system is controlled to compensate on a continuous basis for the attitude gyrations required by electric thrust vector optimization. The solar array control operates to maintain the solar array in a perpendicular orientation to the sun vector for optimum power generation.