Lockheed Martin Corporation

Paul A Porter

Alan Cherrette

Elie Germain Tianang

Jonathan James Bennett

Robert Mark Clark

Gregory Eric Edlund

Mark Adam Patrick

Andrew H Kwon

A Reconfigurable, Flexible Multi-User (RFMU) electronically steered antenna (ESA) includes a top panel and a number of side panels that enable many contacts simultaneously with varying gain requirements from a single, in situ, installation. The top panel includes multiple subarrays and can communicate with flyover satellites, and the side panels can communicate with satellites flying past a side of the ESA. The top panel and the side panels can achieve a beam steering that covers a full or partial, variable gain, hemispheric field-of-view (FoV). The RFMU ESA terminal top and side panels are scalable using flexible modular building blocks. This enables increased contacts, increased gain or a combination thereof sized to meet desired performance.

Reconfigurable, flexible multi-user electronically steered antenna (ESA) terminal

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Castle Pines, CO, United States of America

Paul A Porter