Oscillation damping system

Claim 1

A VEHICLE SELF-ORIENTING AND SELF-DAMPING, IN FREE FLIGHT ABOUT AN AXIS PASSING THROUGH THE VEHICLE AND WITH RESPECT TO A SOURCE OF RADIATION, COMPRISING: RADIATION-RECEIVING MEANS WHICH, WHEN THE VEHICLE IS IN OR NEAR ITS NEUTRAL OR STABLE ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SAID SOURCE OF RADIATION, PRODUCE FROM RECEPTION OF SAID RADIATION A RESULTANT FORCE WHOSE CENTER OF PRESSURE LIES ON THE SIDE OF THE CENTER OF MASS OF THE SAID VEHICLE OPPOSITE THE SAID SOURCE OF RADIATION AND ALIGNED WITH THE SAID CENTER OF MASSES AND THE STABLE DIRECTION OF THE SAID SOURCE OF RADIATION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM STORAGE MEANS COMPRISING: A MASS RESTRAINED FOR CIRCULATORY MOTION ABOUT THE SAID AXIS AND REVERSIBLE DRIVE MEANS FOR CIRCULATING THE SAID MASS IN EITHER DIRECTION ABOUT THE SAID AXIS AT VARIOUS SPEEDS RESPONSIVELY TO ENERGY INPUTS; RADIANT ENERGY CONVERSION MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF COMPONENTS TO SEVERALLY RECEIVE SAID RADIANT ENERGY AND CONVERT IN INTO OTHER FORM OF ENERGY AND CONNECTED TO APPLY SAID OTHER FORM OF ENERGY TO CAUSE THE SAID MASS OF SAID ANGULAR MOMENTUM STORAGE MEANS TO BE DRIVEN IN A DIRECTION DETERMINED BY THE IDENTITY OF THE SAID COMPONENT AND AT A SPEED DETERMINED BY THE RATE OF RECEPTION OF SAID RADIANT ENERGY BY THE SAID COMPONENT; SHADE MEANS LOCATED GENERALLY TO INTERCEPT RADIANT ENERGY FROM THE SAID SOURCE TO THE SAID RADIANT ENERGY CONVERSION MEANS WHEN THE SAID VEHCILE IS IN ITS NEUTRAL OR STABLE ATTITUDE TOARD THE SAID SOURCE, AND TO PERMIT, WHEN THE VEHICLE IS SLIGHTLY DISPLACED, BY ROTATION AROUND THE SAID AXIS, FROM THE SAID NEUTRAL OR STABLE ATTITUDE, SELECTIVE ILLUMINATION OF COMPONENTS OF THE SAID PLURALITY WHICH ARE CONNECTED TO DRIVE THE MASS OF THE SAID ANGULAR MOMENTUM STORAGE MEANS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SAID ROTATION AROUND THE SAID AXIS.