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Title:
ACTUAL ORBITAL CLIMB SYSTEM OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE AND METHOD THEREOF
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001001999
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To minimize the exposure of a geostationary satellite to the danger of a Van Allen radioactive belt, by involving a high-thrust chemical propulsion thruster and an electric propulsion thruster, and controlling them in such a direction as they are kept away from the Van Allen radioactive belt in climbing an artificial satellite to a geostationary orbit.

A ground apparatus 21 having a software 22 which generates a maneuvering profile and a thruster profile on the earth is provided as a system 20, for orbital climb which launches an artificial satellite from a transfer orbit to a geosynchronous orbit. A satellite side equipment 23 including a software 24 which generates a thruster profile and an artificial satellite maneuvering profile on the artificial satellite is provided. On a transfer orbit, a chemical propulsion thruster is activated at the apogee of the intermediary orbit, control the perigee of the orbit so as to lift if up continuously until the satellite is away from the Van Allen radioactive belt, and then an electric propulsion thruster is activated, while a solar array is kept being illuminated by the sun.


Inventors:
GELON WALTER
KAMEL AHMED
STRATEMEIER DARREN
HUR-DIAZ SUN
Application Number:
JP2000113156A
Publication Date:
January 09, 2001
Filing Date:
April 14, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
LORAL SPACE SYSTEMS INC
International Classes:
B64G1/00; B64G1/24; B64G1/26; B64G1/40; G05D1/08; (IPC1-7): B64G1/26
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fujihiko Motohiko