A spacecraft 10 includes wings 11 or an airframe 12 which generates lift in an atmosphere 2, a thruster 14 which accelerates or decelerates rotating speed in an orbit, an attitude controller 16 which controls an attitude of the airframe 12, and an orbital plane controller 18 which controls the orbital plane change. The orbital plane controller causes the spacecraft 10 to enter the earth's atmosphere 2 within a pre-change orbital plane Fb (A→B→C), changes the orbital plane by using the lift of the wings 11 or airframe 12 in the earth's atmosphere 2 (C→D→E), and then lifts the spacecraft 10 up to the post-change orbital altitude (E→F).


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    Title :

    Spacecraft and orbital plane change method therefor


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2018-07-24


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS



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    FUJIMURA MASANOBU / SUGIMURA FUMITAKA / AMIMOTO JUNICHI et al. | European Patent Office | 2016

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