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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepak Vasisht, Redmond, WA (US);
Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure herein describes transmitting data from a satellite using a ground station configured to both transmit and receive, and a set of ground stations configured to receive data from a satellite. An orbit of the satellite is determined over a schedule period and subset of ground stations configured to receive data and not transmit data to satellite is identified based on the determined orbit of satellite. A transmission schedule associated with the satellite is then generated. For each ground station of the subset, a time interval during which satellite is within communication range is determined, an expected transmission rate is estimated, and time interval and expected transmission rate are included in transmission schedule. The transmission schedule is provided to the satellite via another ground station configured to both transmit and receive, whereby the satellite is configured to transmit data to the subset of ground stations based on transmission schedule.