Satellite communication system utilizing customized highly elliptical orbits
AssigneeHEO Satellite, LLC
InventorsRyan Stone, Andrew Caplan, David Helfgott
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Abstract
A method of applying enhanced communication security in a satellite communication environment may include communicating with a satellite having a highly elliptical orbit from a satellite controller at a ground station, determining an orbital modification to apply to the satellite, communicating a command instruction to the satellite for thrusters of the satellite to provide a micro-orbit adjustment, and monitoring communications after the micro-orbit adjustment to determine malicious actors based on a timing adjustment associated with the micro-orbit adjustment.
Claims20
A satellite communication system comprising:
- a first satellite among a constellation of satellites, the first satellite having a first highly elliptical orbit (HEO) with a first apogee and a first perigee;
- a second satellite among the constellation of satellites, the second satellite having a second HEO with a second apogee and a second perigee;
- a first communication device capable of communicating with the first or second satellite via a first communication link;
- a second communication device capable of communicating with the first or second satellite via a second communication link, the second communication device being operably coupled to backhaul and network control components;
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- a satellite controller operably coupled to the first and second satellites via the second communication device to provide a command instruction to either or both of the first and second satellites to manage a handoff of the first communication device between the first and second satellites or modify an orbit of a respective one of the first or second satellites.
A method of applying enhanced communication security in a satellite communication environment, the method comprising:
- communicating with a satellite having a highly elliptical orbit from a satellite controller at a ground station;
- determining an orbital modification to apply to the satellite;
- communicating a command instruction to the satellite for thrusters of the satellite to provide a micro-orbit adjustment;
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- monitoring communications after the micro-orbit adjustment to determine malicious actors based on a timing adjustment associated with the micro-orbit adjustment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.