US 11,728,886 B2
Satellite operating system, architecture, testing and radio communication system
Peter Platzer, San Francisco, CA (US); Joel Spark, Calgary (CA); Jesse Trutna, Eureka, CA (US); and Jeroen Cappaert, Sint-Gillis-Waas (BE)
Assigned to SPIRE GLOBAL SUBSIDIARY, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/322,824.
Application 17/322,824 is a continuation of application No. 15/611,139, filed on Jun. 1, 2017, granted, now 11,012,148.
Application 15/611,139 is a continuation of application No. 14/515,142, filed on Oct. 15, 2014, granted, now 9,673,889, issued on Jun. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0273720 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 7/195 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 7/195 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A receive-only ground station, comprising:
a software-defined radio (SDR) system configured to modulate and demodulate radio signals;
a clock synchronized with a satellite;
a non-transitory storage medium storing a program schedule specifying a predetermined period of time for receiving incoming data from the satellite; and
a processor in communication with the SDR system, the processor configured to:
receive, via the SDR system and as broadcast by the satellite during the predetermined period of time as specified by the program schedule, a stream of the incoming data, wherein the satellite automatically initiates broadcast of the stream of the incoming data to the ground station during the predetermined period of time and without instruction from the ground station to the satellite prompting the broadcast; and
as the ground station receives the stream of incoming data, and without interrupting the stream of incoming data, redirect the stream of the incoming data to a central command center.