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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew E. Turner, Mountain View, CA (US);
David F. Ford, Watsonville, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Stoen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/28 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/28 ;
Abstract
A control method and improved equatorial-normal body-stabilized spacecraft that operates in an inclined orbit. The control method controls pointing of payloads (communication antennas and instruments) and solar arrays disposed on the spacecraft. The method controls the spacecraft to provide Earth-pointing payloads and sun-pointing solar arrays so that the spacecraft body and solar arrays each rotate only around a single axis, a pitch axis of the spacecraft.