Patent ID: 7036772

Claim:
A spacecraft having a body, at least one main telecommunications antenna carried by at least one of two opposed and substantially parallel first faces of said body and having a given orientation with respect to said body, at least one omnidirectional antenna having a field of view opposite to a field of view of said at least one main antenna and at least one radiator deployable by flipping about a respective flip axis linked to said body of the spacecraft between a storage position, in which said at least one radiator is held against said body, and a deployed position, said flip axis being positioned substantially in the plane of a second face of said body, said second face carrying a solar panel, said flip axis being oriented such that said at least one radiator can be flipped through an angle close to 180° from said storage position, in which said at least one radiator is flat against said second face carrying said solar panel, to said deployed position in which said at least one radiator extends substantially in said plane of said second face against which said at least one radiator is held when stored and in which said at least one radiator projects outside of said body wherein said deployed radiator projects from one of said first faces of said body and on a side of said at least one main antenna which is opposite to said field of view of said at least one main antenna.