Power control to a beam steering phased array antenna in satellite applications
AssigneeMetawave Corporation
InventorJun Fang
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to a communication system including a transceiver module, a rearrangeable switch network coupled to the transceiver module, a power distribution network coupled to the rearrangeable switch network, and a plurality of Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antennas, each coupled to the power distribution network and dynamically controllable to generate beams according to a power regulation requirement for a set of satellites.
Claims20
A communication system, the system comprising:
- a transceiver module;
- a rearrangeable switch network coupled to the transceiver module;
- a power distribution network coupled to the rearrangeable switch network;
- and
- a plurality of Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antennas, each coupled to the power distribution network and dynamically controllable to generate beams according to a power regulation requirement for a set of satellites.
A power distribution network for a communication system, the network comprising:
- a multi-port amplification bank;
- a pre-amplification processing module coupled to an input to the multi-port amplification bank;
- a post-amplification processing module coupled to an output of the multi-port amplification bank;
- a Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antenna coupled to a plurality of outputs of the post-amplification processing module;
- and
- a control module to dynamically control the BSPA antenna to generate a plurality of beams according to a power regulation requirement for a set of satellites.
A method for operating an antenna system in a satellite, comprising:
- configuring the system for a first transmission;
- determining whether to adjust a power distribution for the first transmission according to a power regulation requirement for the satellite;
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- dynamically controlling a Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antenna to radiate a plurality of transmission beams, each transmission beam having a beam width and a beam direction to achieve the power regulation requirement for the satellite.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.