METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SPACECRAFT Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC B64G1/50 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: part of the payload module is mounted on inner surfaces of mutually opposite three-layered honeycomb panels +Z and -Z, fitted perpendicular to +Z, -Z axes of the spacecraft, including heat pipes of the temperature control system, lying parallel to +Y, -Y axes of the spacecraft. The other part of devices of the payload module is mounted on three-layered honeycomb panels, lying perpendicular between its above mentioned panels +Z and -Z. Opening three-layered honeycomb panels of the radiator with double-sided heat radiation in the operating position are mounted at a certain angle to heat-radiating surfaces of the panels +Z and -Z of the payload module. The load-carrying structure is in form of a meshed frame structure, and the temperature control sub-system of the payload module is supplemented with a double circulation loop with biphase heat-transfer fluid.

EFFECT: reduced weight and improved operational characteristics of a powerful telecommunication satellite.

2 cl, 8 dwg