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. Angle between direction to the Sun and spaceship orbit plane is defined. Spaceship orbit height is defined to determine the half-angle of the Earth disc visible from spaceship. In case said angle exceeds said half-angle the spaceship gravity orientation is constructed at aligning the axis of its minimum moment of inertia that makes the minimum angle with perpendicular to solar battery working surface, with direction to the Earth centre. Spaceship gravity orientation is maintained by spinning it around the axis of minimum moment of inertia at angular velocity defined from the condition of stability of the given gravity orientation of spaceship.

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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