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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1996
Raymond J Leopold, Tempe, AZ (US);
Peter A Swan, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Keith A Olds, Mesa, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Transmit, receive, and processing functions of a communication satellite are performed by two communication payload satellites. A transmit payload satellite (20) and a receive payload satellite (10) communicate via a crosslink (30,28) which provides the communication path between the two parts of the transmit and receive payload pair (50). The receive payload satellite (10) is optimized to perform substantially all of the receiving and processing functions required in space. The transmit payload satellite (20) is optimized to perform substantially all of the transmitting functions. The optimization process takes into account the location in space for the two separate payloads, where trade-offs are made with respect to electromagnetic signal interference issues, size, weight, power, and complexity.