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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2018
Applicant:
Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US);
Inventors:
Tyghe Robert Speidel, New York, NY (US);
Andrew J. Gerber, Damestown, MD (US);
Assignee:
Lynk Global, Inc., Falls Church, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/195 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18521 (2013.01); H04B 7/18515 (2013.01); H04B 7/18532 (2013.01); H04B 7/195 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for inter-satellite communications, transmissions between a satellite and neighboring satellites that share an orbital plane occur via an aft antenna or a forward antenna and transmissions between the satellite and neighboring satellites that do not share an orbital plane occur via the aft antenna or the forward antenna timed during orbital plane crossings. This occurs even if the total path length and number of links is higher than inter-satellite communications that use side-to-side transfers.