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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Xavier Leyre, Opio, FR;
Xavier Leyre, Opio, FR;
Thales, , FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device making it possible to study the solar corona on a space mission requiring the formation flight of two satellites: an occulting satellite (OCC), the role of which is to create an artificial eclipse of the sun from the point of view of a coronagraph () onboard a second satellite, called carrying satellite (COR). The invention presents the advantage of proposing a formation flight device intended for a solar coronagraphy mission comprising fixed solar panels (), requiring no deployment, thanks to a dissymmetrical accommodation of the coronagraph () reflected in a shifting of said coronagraph () to a side of the carrying satellite (COR).