US 11,863,250 B2
Satellite communication system transmitting navigation signals using a wide beam and data signals using a directive beam
Tyghe Robert Speidel, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US)
Filed by Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,329.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/134,213, filed on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0216896 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 25/00 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H01Q 5/28 (2015.01)
CPC H04B 7/0408 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/288 (2013.01); H01Q 5/28 (2015.01); H01Q 21/065 (2013.01); H01Q 25/002 (2013.01); H04B 7/043 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A satellite communications system comprising:
at least one satellite;
an antenna structure deployed on the at least one satellite; and
radio hardware coupled to the antenna structure configured to provide for transmitting a first channel simultaneously with a second channel to a user terminal, wherein the first channel is transmitted using directive beams and the second channel is transmitted using a wide beam and wherein the directive beams are used to transmit data communication signals and the wide beam is used to transmit navigation signals, wherein first frequencies used to transmit the navigation signals are within guard bands within a frequency band used to transmit the data communication signals.