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公开(公告)号:US20230164089A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17955401
申请日:2022-09-28
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Jared Michael Greene , Mohammed Faraz Admani , Jacob Nelson Glueck , Sergii Ziuzin , Francesco De Paolis , Dhruv Dawar , Christopher Yu
CPC classification number: H04L47/70 , G06F9/4881 , H04B7/18521 , H04B7/18513
Abstract: A satellite includes a satellite control system, an antenna connected to the satellite control system, a memory device, a computing environment configured on the satellite. The satellite can be part of a cluster of satellites that are dynamically organized from a larger group of satellites based on one or more of scheduled workload, a movement of the larger group of satellites, thermal issues, reset or reboot issues, energy issues and capabilities of individual satellites to provide access to compute resources on the cluster of satellites such as cloud-services or data. Requests for compute resources can be routed to the proper satellite in the dynamically-changing cluster of satellites to provide data associated with the compute resources or access to functions associated with the compute resources such as stock, bond, or cryptocurrency trading functions. The cluster of satellites can be periodically updated to provide continued service or availability of the compute resources.
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公开(公告)号:US11658384B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17065707
申请日:2020-10-08
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Ryan Kennett , Anthony Sims
IPC: H01Q1/12
CPC classification number: H01Q1/1242 , H01Q1/1264
Abstract: An antenna apparatus having a housing enclosing antenna components and a leg extending from the housing includes a base securable to a surface and configured to receive a bottom portion of the leg. A locking assembly defined at the bottom portion of the leg is moveable between a first position, wherein the leg is removable from the base, and a second position, wherein the leg is lockingly secured within the base.
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公开(公告)号:USD986228S1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US29720092
申请日:2020-01-09
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Designer: Jackson Shaffner , Anthony Sims , Ryan Kennett , Michael J. Conte , Victor Q. Dang , Duncan Edwin Adams
Abstract: FIG. 1 is a bottom perspective view of an antenna apparatus showing an exemplary embodiment of our new design in a first configuration;
FIG. 2 is a left side view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a top perspective view of the antenna apparatus of FIG. 1 shown in a second configuration;
FIG. 4 is a bottom perspective view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a left view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 is a right side view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 7 is a top view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 9 is a front view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3; and,
FIG. 10 is a rear view of the antenna apparatus shown in FIG. 3.
The broken lines shown in the figures represent portions of the antenna apparatus that form no part of the claimed design.-
公开(公告)号:US11652525B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US17703831
申请日:2022-03-24
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Eric Pepin , Kim W. Schulze , Amir Agah , Dean A. De Carli , Philippe Riondet
CPC classification number: H04B7/0617 , H04B7/0686 , H04B17/11
Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming. An example method can include determining digital beamforming weights associated with a plurality of digital beamforming paths between digital beamformers and groups of analog beamforming circuits in a phased array antenna, each digital beamforming path being coupled to a group of analog beamforming circuits and each analog beamforming circuit being coupled to a respective set of antenna elements of the phased array antenna; determining analog beamforming weights associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits, the analog beamforming weights comprising inverses of the digital beamforming weights; determining calibration offsets estimated to put analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits in a desired phase and gain relationship to each other; and varying, based at least partly on the calibration offsets, a signal phase shift across the analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits.
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公开(公告)号:US20230141676A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-11
申请号:US17983932
申请日:2022-11-09
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Isiah G. Brenner , David R. Farrell , Michael J. Conte , Louis Joseph Rigo , David Milroy
CPC classification number: H01Q1/1242 , F16B7/0413 , F16M11/28
Abstract: In one example, a system for use with an antenna assembly is described. The system may include a mast having a first end configured to be coupled to a mount and a second end configured to be coupled to the antenna assembly. A bulkhead connector may be disposed within an inner bore of the mast, wherein the bulkhead connector includes a biasing member moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein the biasing member is biased to the first position and moveable to the second position when urged by a force. The system may further include a mount including a mount connector configured to mate with the bulkhead connector, wherein the bulkhead connector is in the first position when mated or unmated with the mount connector, and wherein the bulkhead connector is in the second position when being partially mated or being partially unmated from the mount connector.
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公开(公告)号:US11546179B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-03
申请号:US17332960
申请日:2021-05-27
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Joshua S. Salazar , Anno Van den Akker , Robert Ruark , Yong Ren , Bhaskar S. Vadathavoor , Krisztian Bakos
Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a source device including a first current limiter and a second current limiter in parallel with each other and a first transformer and a second transformer; a load device includes a third transformer and a fourth transformer in parallel with each other; and an Ethernet cable is electrically coupled between the source device and the load device, the Ethernet cable including first twisted pair lines and second twisted pair lines. A direct current (DC) voltage is provided to the first current limiter and the second current limiter, the first transformer is electrically coupled to an output of the first current limiter, and the second transformer is electrically coupled to an output of the second current limiter. The DC voltage is transmitted to the third transformer and the fourth transformer in parallel with each other via the first twisted pair lines and the second twisted pair lines. The first twisted pair lines and second twisted pair lines are included in an Ethernet cable electrically coupled between the source device and the load device.
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公开(公告)号:US11540301B1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-27
申请号:US17338522
申请日:2021-06-03
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Jayasuryan V. Iyer , Khasim Shaheed Shaik Mahammad , Yashodhan Dandekar , Ramakrishna Akella , Chen Chen , Phillip E. Barber , Peter J. Worters
Abstract: A method of operating an uplink scheduler as part of a medium access control scheduler on a satellite includes selecting, from a plurality of user terminals, a first number of zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, selecting, from the plurality of user terminals, a second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, binning the second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals into a plurality of bins based on a respective bandwidth requirement for each non-zero-bandwidth request user terminal and based on a minimum user terminal grant and allocating, according to a grant allocation algorithm, a respective grant of radio resources in an uplink frame to each user terminal of the plurality of user terminals into a respective bin of the plurality of bins in an order associated with increasing bandwidth needs. A downlink scheduler is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11469517B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-11
申请号:US17237031
申请日:2021-04-21
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: Alireza Mahanfar , Souren Shamsinejad , Shaya Karimkashi Arani , Siamak Ebadi , Ersin Yetisir , Peter Sung Tri Hoang , Javier Rodriguez De Luis , Nil Apaydin
Abstract: In some embodiments, a phased array antenna, includes a plurality of antenna modules arranged in an antenna lattice configuration to form the phased array antenna, wherein an antenna module of the plurality of antenna modules includes an antenna element packaged together with an amplifier.
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公开(公告)号:USD962906S1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-06
申请号:US29720089
申请日:2020-01-09
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Designer: Jackson Shaffner , Ryan Kennett , Anthony Sims , David Milroy , Duncan Edwin Adams
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公开(公告)号:US20220278760A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-01
申请号:US17747895
申请日:2022-05-18
Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Inventor: David Francois Jacquet , Masoud Kahrizi , Robert Baummer, JR. , Jean-Noel Rozec , Fabrice Jean André Belvèze , Paul Lee Pearson , Francois Lucien Emile Icher , Marc Gens , Pascal Triaire
Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a transmit section including a first baseband section and a first radio frequency (RF) section, wherein the transmit section is configured to receive a calibration signal, the first RF section is configured to generate a RF calibration signal based on modulating the calibration signal. The calibration signal comprises an orthogonal code based signal; and a receive section configured to receive the RF calibration signal over-the-air, the receive section includes a second RF section and a calibration section, the second RF section is configured to generate a received calibration signal based on the RF calibration signal, the received calibration signal and a reference signal associated with the RF calibration signal comprise inputs to the calibration section and the calibration section is configured to determine one or more of gain, baseband delay, or RF delay compensation values, based on the inputs, to calibrate the transmit section.
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