METHOD FOR SPACE VEHICLE WITH FIXED PANELS OF SOLAR BATTERIES ORIENTATION CONTROL DURING EXPERIMENTS ON ORBITS WITH MAXIMUM ECLIPSE PERIOD Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC B64G1/24 B64G1/44 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to control of orientation of space vehicle (SV) with immovable relative to SV body panels of solar batteries (SB). Control method includes SV gravitational orientation and its spin around longitudinal axis (minimum momentum of inertia). When the Sun is near orbit plane this plane is aligned with SB plane by the time of passing morning terminator. Angle between normal to SB active surface and direction to the Sun is measured and monitored. At the moment of passing morning terminator, SV spin is performed in direction corresponding to decrease of the mentioned angle, where spin angular velocity is selected from the range of 360°/T - 720°/T, where T is SA orbiting period.

EFFECT: providing enough SB energy receipt on orbits with maximum eclipse period.