CONTROL OVER ORIENTATION OF SUPPLY SPACESHIP WITH STATIONARY SOLAR BATTERY PANELS AT JOBS UNDER CONDITIONS OF SPINNING Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B64G1/24 B64G1/44 

FIELD: aircraft engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aerospace engineering. Proposed method comprises supply spaceship spinning around perpendicular to solar battery working surface directed to the Sun at angular velocity of at least 1.5 degree/s. During said spinning at time interval of duration making at least one circuit supply angular velocity components are measured in structural system of coordinates. Measured magnitudes are used to define the directions of the main central axis of inertia of supply spaceship. Spaceship is turned to alignment of the central axis of inertia making the minimum angle with perpendicular to solar battery working surface with direction to the Sun. Spaceship is spun around spaceship around said axis to measure solar battery current. After current reaches minimum permissible magnitudes spaceship is, again, turned to align said axis of inertia with direction to the Sun. Again, spaceship is spun around said axis.

EFFECT: higher power yield of solar batteries owing to radiation reflected from the Earth at spaceship gravity orientation with spinning with allowance for actual main central axes of inertia.

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