Patent ID: 11858663
Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. A face of a satellite used for manufacturing a satellite according to the method of according to claim 1, the satellite being intended to be placed in geostationary orbit around the Earth, said facet including:
one or more reflectors, each reflector being connected to said face of the satellite via a deployment device allowing to make the reflector go from a retracted position to a deployed position, the reflectors being stacked above one another facing the face of the satellite when there are several reflectors and when the reflectors are in the retracted position,
for each reflector, a radiofrequency source for emission or for reception for forming a beam carrying a radio signal to or from the Earth,
wherein each reflector, each source and each deployment device are arranged so that a beam coming from a source is aimed at the centre of the Earth when the satellite is in orbit and the associated reflector is in a default deployed position,
wherein each deployment device is configured to move each reflector into an adjusted deployed position in which the reflector, is aimed at a specific geographic zone corresponding to a mission of the satellite.