Patent ID: 11863289
Assignee: VIASAT INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:
a first user terminal comprising communication equipment for communication with each respective one of the plurality of satellites and operative to continuously receive communications from the ground station that are relayed from respective ones of the plurality of satellites in the first repeating sky track; and
a second user terminal comprising communication equipment for communication with each respective one of the plurality of satellites and operative to continuously receive communications from the ground station that are relayed from respective ones of the plurality of satellites in the second repeating sky track;
wherein each user terminal comprises a user terminal phased array antenna with a communication range that extends to an entirety of at least one sky track for receipt of communication from the ground station relayed by respective ones of the plurality of satellites.