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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2023
Astranis Space Technologies Corp., San Francisco, CA (US);
John Gedmark, San Francisco, CA (US);
Siamak Ebadi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan McLinko, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Joseph, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Kummerer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Bily, Oakland, CA (US);
Kagan Topalli, Burlingame, CA (US);
Astranis Space Technologies Corp., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments relate satellites using a Software-Defined Radio ('SDR') system. In one example, a geostationary (GEO) satellite includes an antenna system including multiple antennas, each configured to provide a spot beam having an adjustable throughput for a terrestrial coverage area while the antenna is in an active state and the satellite is in orbit above the Earth, a front-end subsystem communicatively coupled to the antenna system having an input side including an input filter and an analog-to-digital converter, and an output side including an output filter and a digital-to-analog converter, and a software defined radio (“SDR”) communicatively coupled to the antenna system via the front-end subsystem. The SDR, in response to a surge modification request, modifies a throughput of each active antenna by increasing or decreasing a share of a satellite power budget allotted to the antenna by deactivating or activating a previously active or previously inactive antenna, respectively.