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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Michael A. Whelan, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04B 7/18515 (2013.01);
Abstract
A spacecraft, having a satellite receiver, that is configured so that the direction of the downlink beams transmitted from the satellite receiver depends on the location of the uplink signals transmitted from the ground and not the attitude of the spacecraft in space.