CONTROLLED DEVICE FOR RELEASE OF ROPE OF BUNDLE OF TWO SPACECRAFTS Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC B64G1/00 B64G1/22 

FIELD: astronautics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to means of deployment of rope system including connected spacecrafts (SC). On one of SC (2) there is drum (3) with rope (4), inertia-free (5) and electromagnetic (10) coils with controlled power supply (11). On other SC (8) the free end of rope (4) is fixed (7) and connection adapter (12) for SC (2) is provided. SC (8) is equipped with superconducting (C-P) coil (13) short-circuited with the help of C-P switch (14). When SC (2, 8) are docked, current in C-P coil (13) is equal to zero, and coil (10) is supplied from source (11). As a result of interaction of data fields of coils SC (2, 8) are repulsed from each other and, at clearing from mutual fixation, diverge to distance equal to length of rope (4). In this state of rope system current in C-P coil (13) is equal to zero, and this state is further automatically stabilized by known property of C-P contour.

EFFECT: technical result consists in improvement of reliability and flexibility of control of rope system deployment.

1 cl, 1 dwg