FIELD: spacecraft industry.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to small-sized binary spacecraft (BSC) designed to create a reconfigurable multi-element antenna systems. The BSC contains two cylindrical bodies, in the centers of the ends of which there are four telescopic rods, on which there are four multi-vector matrix rocket engines (MMRE) with wavy cylindrical surfaces for deploying a flexible solar battery (SB) wound into two rolls, integrated with an antenna. At the end of the rolling up, the BSC’s MMRE are put on cylinder-shaped bodies according to the principle of "Russian Matreshka Dolls". The SB’s fabric consists of two parts of equal length, the ends of which are connected to the cylindrical bodies and to tension rods connected by a hollow bridge in the middle, in one of which there are extendable docking units. To control the length of the SB deployment and the BSC orientation relative to other BSCs with the help of the MMRE, four disk scanning laser rangefinders, mounted on the ends of the cylindrical bodies, are used.
EFFECT: capability to dock with several spacecraft, deploying and deactivating the SB, integrated with the antenna, directly rolled up or wound onto the cylindrical bodies using the MMRE, their compact parking after the completion of the BSC deactivation.
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