FIELD: spacecraft.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to small-sized binary spacecraft (BSC) designed to create reconfigurable scanning multi-element antenna systems. The spacecraft has two cylindrical bodies. There are four telescopic rods in the centers of their ends. There are four multi-vector matrix rocket engines (MMRD) with wavy cylindrical surfaces on the telescopic rods for deploying a flexible solar battery (SB) coiled in two rolls integrated with an antenna. The sheet of the SB consists of two parts of equal length the ends of which are connected to cylindrical bodies and to tension tubes in which retractable docking manipulators are located. The rotation of one web relative to the other is carried out by an electromechanical unit consisting of a coaxially located annular solar sensor, a disk current collector, a stepper motor connecting the first and second tension tubes in the middle. To control the length of the deployment of the SB and the orientation of the SC relative to the other SCs with the help of the MMRD, four disk scanning laser rangefinders, mounted on the ends of the cylindrical bodies, are used.
EFFECT: possibility of docking with several SCs, the deployment and folding of the SB integrated with the antenna, which is directly coiled or wound onto the cylindrical housings using the MMRD, their compact parking at the end of the SC collapsing and the possibility of simultaneous separate tracking of the SB for the Sun and radio signal sources moving in different directions.
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