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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Jonathan James Bennett, Littleton, CO (US);
Alan Cherrette, Littleton, CO (US);
Andrew H. Kwon, Upland, CA (US);
Elie Germain Tianang, Aurora, CO (US);
Mark Adam Patrick, Littleton, CO (US);
Paul A. Porter, Castle Pines, CO (US);
Gregory Eric Edlund, Littleton, CO (US);
Robert Mark Clark, Littleton, CO (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
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.