Patent ID: 8547897

Claim:
A dynamic multi-satellite communications system for forward link traffic, comprising: a satellite segment, a ground segment and a user segment, wherein the satellite segment further comprising at least two satellites, the ground segment further comprising at least a first hub terminal, and the user segment further comprising at least a first multi-beam-antenna (MBA) user terminal; wherein the first hub terminal further comprising: a forward link preprocessor adapted to: perform a Nf-to-Nf wavefront multiplexing (WF Muxing) process on forward link signals with inputs of Pf diagnostic channel inputs and Nf-Pf channels for forward link signals, wherein Nf is an integer and Nf≧2, wherein Pf is an integer and Pf≧1; and perform a Nf-to-Nf wavefront multiplexing (WF Muxing) process on forward link signals with outputs of Nf channels of WF mux (WFM) forward link signals; and a hub multi-beam-antenna (MBA) antenna adapted to continuously point to the at least two satellites to transmit the WFM forward link signals to the satellite segment; and wherein the first MBA user terminal further comprising: a user MBA antenna adapted to receive the WFM forward link signals from the satellite segment and continuously track and point to the at least two satellites, and a post-processor adapted to: equalize amplitude and phase propagation differentials in among Nf receiving channels; and perform a Nf-to-Nf wavefront de-multiplexing process (WF demuxing) with inputs of Nf channels of the equalized WFM forward link signals; and perform a Nf-to-Nf wavefront de-multiplexing process (WF demuxing) with outputs of Pf channels of recovered diagnostic signals and Nf-Pf channels for the recovered forward link signals.