SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTATION MODULE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B64G1/22 B64G1/52 

FIELD: space engineering; manufacture of artificial satellites and other spacecraft.

SUBSTANCE: proposed instrumentation module has body made from honeycomb panels. Thermostatted plate of payload is mounted on body with the aid of brackets. Equipment of instrumentation module is installed on honeycomb panels, mainly inside module. Honeycomb panels are provided with labyrinth-type vent holes and technological holes for introduction and removal of structural members: rods, pipe lines, cable bundles, etc. Clearances between honeycomb panels of body of instrumentation module, between instrumentation module and thermostatted plate, between edges of technological holes and said structural members are shielded by means of optically opaque member which is made from material having electrically conducting layer ensuring electrical tightness of instrumentation module. Shielding member is also provided with labyrinth-type vent holes.

EFFECT: enhanced protection of equipment against electromagnetic radiation, spurious currents and action of charged particles of natural or technogenous nature (for example, magneto-sphere plasma and jets of electric rocket engines).

3 cl, 4 dwg