Patent ID: 11909126
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
generating, with a phased array of elements of an antenna system, an array element radiation pattern over a scan angle range, wherein the phased array of elements is spaced at a predetermined wavelength spacing;
reflecting, with a reflector of the antenna system, the array element radiation pattern emitted from the phased array of elements to Earth;
establishing, based on a shape of the reflector, a predetermined magnification as a function of the scan angle range so as to increase a field-of-view of the antenna system;
adjusting, based on the shape of the reflector, the array element radiation pattern, by increasing magnification relative to the scan angle range, to have a gain that increases with increases in scan angle relative to a boresight of the antenna system;
reflecting, with the reflector, radiation from the Earth to the phased array of elements; and
increasing, with the reflector, the scan angle range by a predetermined amount of degrees, wherein the shape of the reflector has a slope that is equal to half the amount of the predetermined amount of degrees for small scan angles.