Patent ID: 11881914
Assignee: SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The device of claim 1, wherein the antenna assembly is in a receive mode,
wherein:
the beam steering controller is configured to cause the antenna assembly to perform a coarse scan of a sky from zero degrees of a broadside of the antenna assembly to a pre-determined maximum angle from the broadside;
if a downlink signal is detected during the coarse scan, the beam steering controller is configured to cause the antenna assembly to perform a fine scan of the sky around one or more degrees from the broadside at which the downlink signal is detected; and
the modem is configured to measure a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) at each search point of a plurality of search points of the fine scan.