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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2019
Vector Launch Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Randall Cleave, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Shaun B. Coleman, San Jose, CA (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying communication networks in clusters of satellite devices. In one example, satellite system may include a ground node including a geosynchronous communication interface configured to transmit data to a geosynchronous satellite device in a geosynchronous orbit, the geosynchronous satellite device including a ground communication interface configured to receive data from at least the ground node, and a low earth orbit communication interface configured to broadcast the data for receipt by a plurality of low-earth orbiting satellite devices. The plurality of low-earth orbiting satellite devices each may include a geosynchronous communication interface configured to receive the data broadcast by the geosynchronous satellite device.