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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2000
Philippe Pham, Pechabou, FR;
Bernard Polle, Saint-Orens, FR;
Matra Marconi Space France, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A satellite has a platform of elongated shape in a direction parallel to a roll axis of the satellite. A deployable arm is pivotally carried by a longitudinally extending face of the platform. A solar generator is carried at the end of the arm by a first motor for aiming the generator through a range of 360° about a pitch axis orthogonal to the direction of elongation of the platform. A second motor rotates the solar generator through a limited angular range about an axis that is orthogonal to the pitch axis and parallel to the plane of the generator. The arm, when deployed, moves the solar generator away from on a stored position in contact with the platform in a direction of a yaw axis.