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Method for maintaining the position of geostationary satellites

US6457679B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

ASTRIUM GMBH · DE

Inventors

Klaus Ebert · Fränkisch-Crumbach, DE
Gerd Reger · Unterhaching, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 18, 2001
Grant date	Oct 1, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 18, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB64G1/2425
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method for maintaining the orbital position of a geostationary satellite by compensating perturbational effects of interfering influences, a range of the satellite orbit is determined, relative to a space-fixed reference system, in which the perturbational effects on the satellite position by the interfering influences reaches a maximum. Position maintaining actuators of the satellite are activated within the determined range.

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