US 11,677,460 B2
Beam super surge methods and apparatus for small geostationary (GEO) communication satellites
John Gedmark, San Francisco, CA (US); Siamak Ebadi, San Francisco, CA (US); Ryan McLinko, San Francisco, CA (US); Steve Joseph, San Francisco, CA (US); Robert Kummerer, San Francisco, CA (US); Adam Bily, Oakland, CA (US); and Kagan Topalli, Burlingame, CA (US)
Assigned to Astranis Space Technologies Corp., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Astranis Space Technologies Corp., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,602.
Application 17/520,602 is a continuation of application No. 16/914,423, filed on Jun. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,171,718.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/868,328, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0060251 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/19 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 3/30 (2006.01); H01Q 19/10 (2006.01); H04B 7/204 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/18515 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/288 (2013.01); H01Q 3/30 (2013.01); H01Q 19/10 (2013.01); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04B 7/18528 (2013.01); H04B 7/19 (2013.01); H04B 7/2041 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A Geostationary (GEO) communication satellite comprising:
an antenna system comprising a plurality of antennas, each of the antennas configured to provide a communication coverage region having an adjustable bandwidth for a terrestrial coverage area while the antenna is in an active state and the satellite is in an orbit above Earth;
a front-end subsystem communicatively coupled to the antenna system, the front-end subsystem comprising an input side including an input filter and an analog-to-digital converter, and an output side including an output filter and a digital-to-analog converter; and
a software defined radio (“SDR”), communicatively coupled to the antenna system via one or more user slices combined or split with the input side or the output side of the front-end subsystem, wherein each of one or more user slices are configured to communicate with one or more distinct gateway slices, wherein the SDR is configured to selectively increase or decrease the throughput of each of the active antennas.