System for satellite to airship to gateway/customer premise equipment, and airship to airship, high data rate relay
OwnerRichard Colemaninventor
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Abstract
A system is disclosed for transmitting data from satellites to unmanned or manned air vehicles (U/MAVs), and then from U/MAVs to Gateway/customer premise equipment (Gateway/CPE). Conversely, the system transmits data from the Gateway/CPEs to the U/MAVs, and then from the U/MAVs to satellites. The transmission between the satellites and U/MAVs involves optical or high frequency microwaves, and the transmission between the U/MAVs and the Gateway/CPEs occurs at lower microwave frequencies. A converting unit within the U/MAVs convert the data between the optical and higher microwave frequencies and the lower microwave frequencies. In another embodiment, data is crosslinked by transmitting it from a first U/MAV to other U/MAVs.
Claims7
A system for transmitting communications and other data comprising:
- one or more satellites, said satellites transmitting data at optical or microwave frequencies;
- one or more unmanned or manned air vehicles;
- a transceiver frequency converter system located on said unmanned or manned air vehicles, said transceiver frequency converter system comprising
- multifrequency receiving antennas, said multifrequency receiving antennas to receive said data from said satellites,
- converting units, said converting units to convert said data to lower frequencies,
- and multifrequency transmitting antennas, said multifrequency transmitting antennas to transmit said data converted to lower frequencies;
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- one or more units of transceiving Gateway/customer premise equipment, said units of transceiving Gateway/customer premise equipment for receiving said data transmitted from said multifrequency transmitting antennas.
A method for transmitting communications and other data comprising the steps of:
- transmitting data at optical or higher microwave frequencies from one or more satellites to one or more unmanned or manned air vehicles;
- receiving said data from said satellites via multifrequency receiving antennas on said unmanned or manned air vehicles;
- converting said data to lower frequencies with converting units on said unmanned or manned air vehicles;
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- transmitting said data via multifrequency transmitting antennas on said unmanned or manned air vehicles to one or more units of transceiving Gateway/customer premise equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.