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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Hau H. Ho, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Ethan A. Stein, Sterling, VA (US);
Michael Fashano, Murrieta, CA (US);
Peter J. Hadinger, Oakton, VA (US);
Gary Lehto, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Hau H. Ho, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Ethan A. Stein, Sterling, VA (US);
Michael Fashano, Murrieta, CA (US);
Peter J. Hadinger, Oakton, VA (US);
Gary Lehto, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A payload () to be mounted onto a satellite () can include a first steerable antenna () providing a downlink to and an uplink from a first user terminal; a second steerable antenna () providing a downlink to and an uplink from a second user terminal; a switching network () coupling the first steerable antenna to the second steerable antenna; and a payload control unit () controlling the switching network to select one of the downlink to the first user terminal provided by the first steerable antenna and the downlink to the second user terminal provided by the second steerable antenna, and one of the uplink from the first user terminal provided by the first steerable antenna and the uplink from the second user terminal provided by the second steerable antenna.