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The energy storage is effected kinetically. The system includes a first feedback loop with a time constant ttwt

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Method for the control and storage of energy for a space vehicle, notably for a satellite, having a piloting device, in which a busbar voltage available at a supply busbar is provided by a solar generator, and by a kinetic energy storage device including two momentum wheels in counter-rotation, said

Method for the control and storage of energy for a space vehicle, notably for a satellite, having a piloting device, in which a busbar voltage available at a supply busbar is provided by a solar generator, and by a kinetic energy storage device including two momentum wheels in counter-rotation, said wheels serving also to create the torques necessary for piloting the satellite, said method comprising servo-coupling the momentum wheels to the busbar voltage through a first feedback loop including a regulator mounted between the supply busbar and a control device for the momentum wheels, so as to regulate the busbar voltage, servo-coupling the momentum wheels to the speed of the momentum wheels through a second feedback loop comprising a processing unit receiving signals representing said speed and connected to said control device for said wheels, so as to keep at a very low level the disturbing torques produced by the kinetic energy storage device, and servo-coupling the momentum wheels to the piloting device through a third feed-back loop comprising in series the piloting device, the processing unit and the momentum wheel control device, so as to supply the necessary torque for piloting.