Method and system for unloading the inertia wheels of a spacecraft

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PATENT NO 8798816
APP PUB NO 20140209750A1
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12574902

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The method for unloading the inertia wheels of a spacecraft comprising three references axes X, Y, Z, the axis Z corresponding to a pointing direction, consists in inverting the direction of accumulation of the angular momentum in the wheels by automatic rotational flipping of the spacecraft about the axis Z, the pointing direction remaining fixed. The method has application to the field of satellites or of interplanetary probes.

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Guyot, Francois Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine, FR 3 45

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