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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2023
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Chen Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Darshan Purohit, Fremont, CA (US);
Yashodhan Dandekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pavel Chikulaev, Redmond, WA (US);
David Sacks, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter J. Worters, San Carlos, CA (US);
Phillip E. Barber, Sammamish, WA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a user terminal includes a communication module (CM) configured to generate an initial network entry request; an antenna assembly configured to find, in response to the initial network entry request, a satellite based on a search of a sky. The search of the sky includes sequentially changing a beam pointing direction of the antenna assembly. The satellite is assigned to downlink to a geographic cell associated with the user terminal. The user terminal includes a media access control (MAC) layer component configured to generate an uplink radio frame including a random access channel (RACH) request associated with the initial network entry request at a particular portion of the uplink radio frame for the satellite.