TRANSPORTATION-TECHNOLOGICAL FACILITY Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: aerospace engineering. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to equipment for assembling, maintenance and technological preparation of large0size articles, such as modules (packages) of spacecraft. Proposed facility has base with support posts, adjustable rods and temporary stops. Posts are furnished with rotary platform installed for resting on stops. Height of stops exceeds height of posts. Spacecraft is installed on payload frame secured on rotary platform at different position of the latter. With platform being turned from vertical position into inclined position and from inclined position into horizontal position and vice versa, platform turning axis transfers from support posts onto axis of turning on temporary stops and vice versa. EFFECT: improved functional and service characteristics of equipment when spacecraft is installed at different tilting in different zones of payload frame. 10 dwg