Device for Protecting an Optical Instrument of a Satellite
AssigneeThales
InventorsYannick BAUDASSE, Stéphane VEZAIN
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Abstract
A device for protecting an optical instrument of a satellite comprises a body on which the optical instrument is mounted, said protection device having a folded-down position and a deployed position, and further comprising a plurality of rigid panels in the deployed position, the device forming a tube, the section of which is a polygon, arranged so as to protect the optical instrument, the longitudinal axis of the tube being substantially parallel with the focal axis of the optical instrument, the faces of the tube of polygonal section being formed by panels, in the folded-down position, said panels being held against the body of the satellite.
Claims13
A device for protecting an optical instrument of a satellite comprising a body on which the optical instrument is mounted, said protection device having a folded-down position and a deployed position, and comprising a plurality of rigid panels, said panels being held against the body of the satellite in the folded-down position, and forming a tube of polygonal section in the deployed position, arranged so as to protect the optical instrument, the longitudinal axis of the tube being substantially parallel with the focal axis of the optical instrument, wherein each face of the polygon consists of a subset of the plurality of rigid panels, the rigid panels being linked together by self-powered articulations.
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