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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Worldvu Satellites Limited, Arlington, VA (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Cameron Meek, Haymarket, VA (US);
Assignee:
WORLDVU SATELLITES LIMITED, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/10 (2006.01); B64G 1/24 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/1085 (2013.01); B64G 1/1007 (2013.01); B64G 1/242 (2013.01); H04B 7/185 (2013.01);
Abstract
A configuration for a satellite constellation has a plurality of planes, each plane including a plurality of satellites therein, at least some of the planes situated at a different altitude than other of the planes. In some embodiments, all planes contain the same number of satellites; in some other embodiments, at least one plane includes a different number of satellites than the other planes in the constellation. In some embodiments, the satellites in each plane are evenly spaced.