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2007-05-22

2007-05-22

Dinh, Tien (Department: 3644)

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

Attitude control

C244S164000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11044550

ABSTRACT:
A spacecraft including control vanes for controlling the pointing direction of the spacecraft by providing a variable absorptive, reflective, emissive and/or transmissive properties. The control vanes provide a torque on the spacecraft to maintain the spacecraft pointing towards the sun. The control vanes can include at least one xb-axis control vane and at least one yb-axis control vane where the xbaxis control vane provides xb-axis control torque on the spacecraft rotated about the xb-axis, and the yb-axis control vane provides yb-axis control torque on the spacecraft when rotated about the yb-axis.

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