Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Non-geosynchronous orbit satellite constellations
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Application No.: US16424793Application Date: 2019-05-29
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Publication No.: US10903900B2Publication Date: 2021-01-26
- Inventor: Rafi Heiman , Ivan Tsonev Ivanov
- Applicant: Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
- Applicant Address: IL Petah Tikva
- Assignee: Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Petah Tikva
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04B7/19
- IPC: H04B7/19 ; H04B7/195 ; H04B17/40 ; H04B7/185

Abstract:
A method for designing Non-Geosynchronous Orbit (NGSO) satellite constellations and NGSO satellite constellations thereof are presented. An NGSO satellite constellation may be designed to allow an earth station to perform handover between two satellites of the NGSO satellite constellation while the two satellites appear to be at about a same location in the sky relative to the earth station. In such constellation, an earth station may perform such handover between the two satellites in a Make-Before-Break fashion while the earth station may be configured to use a single, slow-tracking antenna, such as a mechanically tracking dish antenna.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200036437A1 Non-Geosynchronous Orbit Satellite Constellations Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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