Patent ID: 8334809

Claim:
An antenna comprising: a first planar array of antenna elements; one or more side planar arrays of antenna elements, each of the one or more side planer arrays being adjacent to said first planar array and tilted at a predetermined angle relative to said first planar array; and a processor adapted to turn off the antenna elements of the one or more side planar arrays depending on a relative location of a satellite, wherein the antenna elements in all of the side planar arrays are configured to be turned off when the satellite is above a particular elevation angle relative to the first planar array, wherein the antenna elements in one or more of the side planar arrays aligned with said satellite are configured to be turned on while the antenna elements in the other of the side planner arrays are configured to be turned off, when said satellite is below the particular elevation angle relative to the first planar array, and wherein the first planar array and the side planar arrays are configured to point a receive beam and a transmit beam in different directions at the same time.