Patent ID: 11958637
Assignee: GEOSHADE CORPORAL
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A solar sail spacecraft comprising:
a hub;
a cable system, deployed in a plane of the solar sail spacecraft when the solar sail spacecraft is under centrifugal force, comprising:
a first plurality of cables connected to and extended radially from the hub; and
a second plurality of cables, each connected to the first plurality of cables at a respective, different, radial distance from the hub and extended in a circumferential direction; and

a plurality of solar sail panel assemblies, each comprising a reflective solar sail panel, wherein at least one of the plurality of solar sail panel assemblies is exclusively, rotatably, coupled to the at least one of the second plurality of cables by which a respective reflective solar sail panel of the at least one of the plurality of solar sail panel assemblies is rotatable out of the plane of the solar sail spacecraft.