SPACECRAFT Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B64G1/12 B64G1/16 B64G1/44 

FIELD: spacecraft for interplanetary flights, research and development of celestial bodies.

SUBSTANCE: proposed spacecraft is equipped with solar sail, central fixed module and movable module which is coaxial relative to first module and is provided with bio-energy complex. Laid spirally on surface of movable module are growth tubes with plant conveyers which ensure turn of movable module around central axis. Connected with modules are generator and electric power accumulator. Fixed module is provided with cylindrical separable ice melting modules. Each module is provided with parachute for descent on planet, its own bio-energy complex and ice melting chamber for forming shaft in ice cover of planet. Ring of reactors located around central axis of module are combined with toruses. On side of central axis reactors are coated with warmth-keeping jacket and are provided with heaters and units for filling the reactors with water in lower part and with oil in upper part. These units ensure operation of hydraulic generator generating vapor for melting ice and supplying distilled water to bio-energy complex. Modules are provided with envelope pressurizing units, deploying their parachutes and supplying sea water from shafts to envelope surfaces for forming ice domes. When domes are combined, stations may be formed for research of planet followed by its populating. Modules are equipped with descent bathyspheres for research of under-ice ocean and robots for performing jobs on planet surface. Spacecraft may include manned separable raiders and bathyscaphs for research of ocean depth. Both of them may be provided with their own bio-energy complexes.

EFFECT: extended boundaries of research and development of far celestial bodies, mainly planets and satellites with thick ice cover.

3 cl, 12 dwg