Patent ID: 11929819
Assignee: ATLAS SPACE OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for facilitating satellite and terrestrial internet communications, the system comprising:
a computer system comprising one or more processors programed with computer program instructions and configured to:
identify, based on satellite location information, a first time period during which a first satellite associated with a first space-based communications network is within communication range of a satellite ground station;
generate, based on the identification and prior to a beginning of the first time period, a first request to configure a communications device associated with the satellite ground station;
retrieve, from a configuration database, and based on the first request, first configuration information to be used to configure the communications device;
and configure the communications device based on the first configuration information to:
receive a first data signal comprising first data encoded using one or more first space-based communication protocols associated with the first space-based communications network, and
output, based on the first data signal, a second data signal comprising second data encoded using one or more terrestrial-based communication protocols associated with a terrestrial-based communications network, wherein the second data signal is provided to the terrestrial-based communications network.