Patent ID: 11950109
Assignee: AST & SCIENCE, LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A satellite communication system, comprising:
a phased antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements, a field of view (FoV) and an aperture, and configured to communicate with devices in a plurality of cells in the FoV via a plurality of downlink beams, each of the plurality of downlink beams being associated with one of the plurality of cells; and
a satellite module in operative communication with the phased antenna array, the satellite module having a processing device configured to:
select a downlink sub-aperture for each of the plurality of downlink beams, each selected downlink sub-aperture being a subset of antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements in the phased antenna array;
determine a downlink beam taper for each downlink beam of the plurality of downlink beams; and
distribute, to the phased antenna array, the selected downlink sub-aperture and the downlink beam taper for each downlink beam of the plurality of downlink beams.