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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2023
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Masoud Kahrizi, Irvine, CA (US);
Alex Ahmad Mirzaei, Tustin, CA (US);
Ali Sajjadi, Irvine, CA (US);
Bagher Afshar, Irvine, CA (US);
Babak Vakili-Amini, Irvine, CA (US);
Alireza Mehrnia, Tustin, CA (US);
Behzad Nourani, Irvine, CA (US);
Bernd Pregardier, Oceanside, CA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first digital beamformer (DBF) associated with a first subset of antennas of a phased array antenna, the first DBF including a transmit section associated with transmission of a first signal at a first frequency in a transmit mode and a receive section associated with receiving of a second signal at a second frequency in a receive mode, the second frequency being different from the first frequency. The apparatus includes a second DBF associated with a second subset of antennas of the phased array antenna. The first and second DBFs are configured to receive a local oscillator signal having the first frequency from a common local oscillator in the transmit mode and receive the local oscillator signal having the second frequency from the common local oscillator in the receive mode.