Airbus Defence and Space Sas

Agence Spatiale Europeenne

Nicolas Jeannin

Riccardo De Gaudenzi

Piero Angeletti

Emiliano Re

Philippe Bertheux

Alfredo Vernucci

Frédéric Voulouzan

A transmitter device of a bi-static or multi-static radar system is disclosed and implemented for aerial surveillance. The transmitter device is intended to be on board a satellite orbiting the Earth. Once in orbit, the transmitter device is configured to obtain information relating to a region of interest monitored by at least one receiver device of the radar system, and to transmit a signal in a radio beam illuminating at least one portion of the region of interest.

Bi-static or multi-static radar system for aerial surveillance with spatial illumination

A satellite communication system including a multibeam satellite for generating a plurality of feeder beams and a plurality of user beams over a region of interest, a plurality of spatially-separated gateway stations for providing feeder links to said multibeam satellite via respective feeder beams; and a control for operating said gateway stations and multibeam satellite such that: in nominal conditions, Ngateway stations exchange data with K user beams, each of the gateway stations allocating a fraction of its bandwidth to each of the user beams; and in case of fading, data are switched from faded to unfaded gateway stations, whereby none of said user terminals experiences service outage. A method of performing satellite communication using the satellite communication system, and a multibeam communication satellite payload for carrying out the method are provided.

Multibeam satellite communication system and method, and satellite payload for carrying out such a method

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Toulouse, France

Nicolas Jeannin