Patent ID: 11912439
Assignee: AIRBUS ONEWEB SATELLITES SAS
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An artificial satellite comprising:
a satellite structure;
an onboard control system for controlling a plurality of satellite components; and
a memory system, the memory system physically coupled to the satellite structure and independently powerable with respect to the onboard control system and thereby operable to at least receive and store information even when the onboard control system is in an OFF state, the memory system (i) arranged to communicatively couple with the onboard control system, and (ii) stores data which specifies one or more launch-specific parameters for configuring at least one of the satellite components,
the onboard control system being adapted to operate in a transfer phase in response to the artificial satellite separating from a payload dispenser, the onboard control system further adapted to autonomously control, while operating in the transfer phase, one or more aspects of the at least one satellite component at least partly based on the data.