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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2017
Hughes Network Systems, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);
Anthony Noerpel, Lovettsville, VA (US);
Udaya Bhaskar, North Potomac, MD (US);
Stanley Kay, Rockville, MD (US);
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications platform comprises an antenna configured to generate a plurality of communications beams within a respective footprint on the surface of the Earth, wherein each communications beam provides data communications services over a respective cell coverage area on the surface of the Earth. The telecommunications platform further comprises a processor configured to control the plurality of communications beams of the antenna to form the respective cell coverage areas in a fixed cell pattern that remains essentially fixed relative to the surface of the Earth, such that, as the telecommunications platform travels through an orbit around the Earth, the footprint of the antenna sweeps across the fixed cell pattern and provides the communications services via the cell coverage areas of the fixed cell pattern that are within the footprint of the antenna at any given point in time.