Patent ID: 11916652
Assignee: METHERA GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A satellite network for data communication, the network comprising:
a plurality of satellites arranged in medium Earth orbit (MEO) in a plurality of orbital planes such that a plurality of satellites are provided in each orbital plane, each satellite being operable to communicate with one or more terrestrial user terminals and comprising at least one communications antenna operable to generate a spot beam on a predetermined selected terrestrial region to enable said one or more terrestrial user terminals to receive and/or send data via the spot beam, and each satellite being further operable to communicate with at least one terrestrial gateway terminal and further comprising at least one gateway antenna operable to generate a gateway spot beam on a predetermined selected terrestrial gateway region to enable said one or more terrestrial gateway terminals within said gateway region to receive and/or send data via the gateway spot beam, wherein the plurality of satellites is arranged such that the spot beams of at least two satellites are operable to cover substantially the same terrestrial region at any one time, and wherein a plurality of gateway antennas within the network and a plurality of communications antennas within the network are arranged to operate on a same frequency or band of frequencies.