DEVELOPMENT AND TWISTING OF SPACE CABLE SYSTEM RELATIVE TO CENTRE OF GRAVITY WITH HELP OF GRAVITY AND INTERNAL FORCES Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC B64G1/24 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to space cable systems (SCS) and can be used for the transfer of SCS to a spinning mode in the orbit plane without the application of jet engines. SCS development is executed from its initial compact state in the circular orbit by the repulsion of objects at a low relative speed. SCS end weights are connected by a cable, its length being varied by a cable feed-haul-in device arranged on one of the end objects. The objects are separated by a vector of local peripheral speed, for example, by a pusher. The objects are driven by a start pulse to separate the objects in practically free paths at the free feed of the cable. The cable development is terminated by the SCS transfer to a stable mode of associated pendulum motion at the stretched preset-length cable. At a definite range of angular phases of this mode the SCS objects are stretched by hauling in the cable at a definite constant speed. This results in changing the SCS into the spinning mode at a preset power integral and fixed final end of the cable.

EFFECT: relaxed weight-size constrictions of SCS, enhanced performances.

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