Patent ID: 8789796

Claim:
A spacecraft, comprising: a structural interface adapter for mating to a launch vehicle; an aft surface disposed, in a launch configuration within a fairing of the launch vehicle, proximate to the structural interface adapter; a forward surface disposed, in the launch configuration opposite to and above said aft surface; a main body structure disposed between said aft surface and said forward surface; at least one antenna reflector, wherein, the spacecraft is reconfigurable from the launch configuration to an on-orbit configuration: in the launch configuration, the antenna reflector is disposed, undeployed, such that no part of the antenna reflector is aft of said forward surface; and, in the on-orbit configuration the spacecraft is disposed with the aft surface substantially Earth facing and the forward surface substantially facing in an anti-Earth direction and the antenna reflector is disposed, deployed, so as to be Earth facing from a position substantially forward and outboard of the forward surface.