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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
O3b Limited, St. Helier, Jersey, JE;
Gregory Thane Wyler, Sewalls Point, FL (US);
O3b Networks Limited, , GB;
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed which may include providing at least one satellite having a plurality of beamformers configured to provide a plurality of respective beams having a plurality of different respective fixed pitch angles about an axis of the satellite; causing the at least one satellite to move around the earth along a non-geostationary orbit; establishing a data communication path between a first of the beamformers on the satellite and a communication target, the data communication path having a satellite end at the first beamformer and an target end at the communication target; shifting the satellite end of the data communication path through a succession of the beamformers as the satellite moves along its orbit; and at least substantially reducing an amount of RF wave energy directed to beamformers of the plurality of beamformers not forming part of the data communication path.