METHOD OF PLACING SPACE APPARATUS IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT AND DEVICE TO THIS END Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC B64G1/10 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aerospace engineering. Proposed method consists in placing spacecraft in point of near-Earth space with preset latitude and altitude so that angular velocity of spacecraft spinning complies with that of the Earth and maintaining it at said point by continuously operated engine with thrust equal to net of Earth attraction force and centrifugal force acting at spacecraft in opposite direction. Vector of thrust force cross the center of spacecraft gravity. Proposed device is composed of spacecraft comprising control system, orientation system, payload unit, and service systems. It is equipped with continuous-operation engine at swinging suspension electrically connected with control system of spacecraft center of gravity and system for provision of anticollineation of engine thrust vector with net of Earth attraction force and centrifugal force acting at spacecraft Continuous-operation engine is equipped with system for thrust throttling in the range of said net force.

EFFECT: expanded satellite geostationary zone.

2 cl, 6 dwg