公开(公告)号：US20220116792A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-14

申请号：US17498255

申请日：2021-10-11

Applicant: Kymeta Corporation

Inventor： Maxwell A. Smoot ,  Alexander L. Bautista, JR.

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/185

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a satellite communication framework with spatial diversity are described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling communication in a satellite communication network having multiple constellations and a satellite terminal with a single electronically steered flat-panel antenna capable of generating a plurality of beams for communication links with multiple satellites, comprises: determining, under network control, availability of a plurality of networks by which network traffic may be exchanged with the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna; and managing, under network control, two or more satellite links between the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna and two or more satellites of different networks to route the network traffic, including determining when to use each of the two or more satellite links, the two or more satellite links being generated using two or more beams from the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna.

公开(公告)号：US20210258069A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-19

申请号：US17174095

申请日：2021-02-11

Applicant: Kymeta Corporation

Inventor： Mohsen Sazegar ,  Maxwell A. Smoot

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q3/26 ,  H04B7/08

Abstract: Modular antennas with high instantaneous bandwidth are described. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises a plurality of antenna modules tiled together and configured to form one metasurface antenna with an array of surface scattering metamaterial antenna elements; and a feed network comprising a plurality of feed points coupled to the plurality of antenna modules to supply the modules with a feed wave.