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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gérard Caille, Tournefeuille, FR;
Béatrice Pinte, Labege, FR;
Assignee:
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/906 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/906 ;
Abstract
A terminal and antenna system (,) for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from satellites (,) chosen from a constellation of non-geostationary satellites, including means for determining the position of the satellites visible from the terminal and antenna system, means for focusing quasi-plane waves received from or transmitted to a chosen visible satellite towards a focal surface S, primary sources (,) for transmitting and receiving signals in the form of quasi-spherical wave beams, mobile independently over the sphere S in a manner that is slaved to the particular position of the non-geostationary satellites.