METHOD FOR COLLOCATION WHEN TRANSFERRING A GEOSTATIONARY SPACE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER OBSERVATION LONGITUDE AND REMOVING TO A BURIAL ORBIT Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC B64G1/10 

FIELD: cosmonautics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of space engineering and may be used when transferring a geostationary space vehicle (SV) to another orbital position and removing to a burial orbit. For this purpose, the removed SV (RSV) is rotated by the yaw at an acute angle of installation of correction engines (CE) relative to the roll axis, before removing the SV from the set retention area (SRA), until the CE are aligned with the RSV orbit plane. The RSV is transported to the centre of the SRA. A time interval for modelling the RSV collocation with all external SVs located in the SRA in terms of safe corresponding inter-satellite distances under conditions of continuous CE operation is selected. The time of the start of RSV removal is specified, the prospective plan for RSV orbit corrections is determined, and the acceleration correction is started at the calculated time according to the prospective plan of corrections.

EFFECT: creation of a collocation for a relatively short time when removing a geostationary SV to a burial orbit.

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