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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Piero Angeletti, Ah Lisse, NL;
Riccardo DE Gaudenzi, GI den Hague, NL;
Emiliano Re, Leiden, NL;
Nicolas Jeannin, Toulouse, FR;
Alfredo Vernucci, Rome, IT;
Piero Angeletti, Ah Lisse, NL;
Riccardo De Gaudenzi, GI den Hague, NL;
Emiliano Re, Leiden, NL;
Nicolas Jeannin, Toulouse, FR;
Alfredo Vernucci, Rome, IT;
Agence Spatiale Europeenne, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A satellite communication system including a multibeam satellite for generating a plurality of feeder beams and a plurality of user beams over a region of interest, a plurality of spatially-separated gateway stations for providing feeder links to said multibeam satellite via respective feeder beams; and a control for operating said gateway stations and multibeam satellite such that: in nominal conditions, Ngateway stations exchange data with K user beams, each of the gateway stations allocating a fraction of its bandwidth to each of the user beams; and in case of fading, data are switched from faded to unfaded gateway stations, whereby none of said user terminals experiences service outage. A method of performing satellite communication using the satellite communication system, and a multibeam communication satellite payload for carrying out the method are provided.