A method of controlling the attitude of a satellite in orbit around a celestial body. The attitude of the satellite being controlled by a momentum storage device and controllable surfaces of the satellite configured to create desaturation torques in the storage device by using solar pressure. The controllable surfaces are arranged on solar panels mobile in rotation around an axis Y. At least one electric thruster configured to control the orbit of the satellite also controls the attitude of the satellite. The orientation of the electric thruster is controlled to activate the electric thruster with a thrust direction deliberately not aligned with a center of mass of the satellite to create desaturation torques in the storage device along axis Y. The controllable surfaces are controlled to create desaturation torques of the storage device in a plane orthogonal to the Y axis.
PROCEDE DE CONTROLE D'ATTITUDE D'UN SATELLITE ET SATELLITE COMMANDE EN ATTITUDE
METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE ATTITUDE OF A SATELLITE AND ATTITUDE CONTROLLED SATELLITE
VERFAHREN ZUR LAGEREGELUNG EINES SATELLITEN UND LAGEGEREGELTER SATELLIT
2017-02-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
French
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
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