Orbital base station filtering of interference from terrestrial-terrestrial communications of devices that use protocols in common with orbital-terrestrial communications

A multiple access transceiver adapted for operation in Earth orbit and configured for communication with terrestrial mobile devices, the terrestrial mobile devices also capable of communicating with terrestrial base stations, the multiple access transceiver comprising:

• a transceiver capable of receiving an incoming signal in orbit from some of the terrestrial mobile devices comprising a first plurality of the terrestrial mobile devices that are communicating with terrestrial base stations and a particular mobile device that is distinct from the first plurality of the terrestrial mobile devices;
• a filtering module that reduces a first portion of the incoming signal due to the first plurality of the terrestrial mobile devices communicating with terrestrial base stations to produce a filtered signal comprising a first signal contributed from the particular mobile device communicating with the multiple access transceiver in orbit;
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• a signal demodulator that demodulates the filtered signal to produce a demodulated signal corresponding to the first signal from the particular mobile device.