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Fig. A.1

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Simplified model of the spacecraft surface: SRT antenna, spacecraft bus, solar panels (left panel). Permissible attitude of the spacecraft with respect to the Sun prevents the sunlight from getting to the antenna (Gurvits 1991). Therefore, a complex shadowing occurs only on the SRT antenna surface (right panel; the spacecraft is illuminated from the bottom right corner).

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