System and method for re-configuring a satellite antenna
AssigneeTotum Labs, Inc.
InventorsTheodore Jon Myers, Matthew Zacchariah Hughes
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Abstract
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a satellite including a transceiver, a first antenna, a second antenna, and a switch to enable only the first antenna by electrically coupling the first antenna to the transceiver responsive to a satellite constellation having less than a threshold number of satellites and enable only the second antenna by electrically coupling the second antenna to the transceiver responsive to the satellite constellation having greater than the threshold number of satellites.
Claims15
A satellite comprising:
- a transceiver;
- a first antenna;
- a second antenna;
- and a switch to:
- enable only the first antenna by electrically coupling the first antenna to the transceiver responsive to a satellite constellation having less than a threshold number of satellites;
- and
- enable only the second antenna by electrically coupling the second antenna to the transceiver responsive to the satellite constellation having greater than the threshold number of satellites.
A method comprising:
- responsive to a number of satellites in a satellite constellation becoming greater than a threshold number:
- disabling, by a switch, a first antenna by disconnecting the first antenna from a transceiver;
- and
- enabling, by the switch, a second antenna by connecting the second antenna to the transceiver.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store a computer program configured to execute operations comprising:
- responsive to a number of satellites in a satellite constellation becoming greater than a threshold number:
- disabling a first antenna by disconnecting the first antenna from a transceiver;
- and
- enabling a second antenna by connecting the second antenna to the transceiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.