公开(公告)号：US11881627B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17086045

申请日：2020-10-30

Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION

Inventor： Jonathan James Bennett ,  Alan Cherrette ,  Andrew H. Kwon ,  Elie Germain Tianang ,  Mark Adam Patrick ,  Paul A. Porter ,  Gregory Eric Edlund ,  Robert Mark Clark

IPC: H01Q21/20 ,  H04W16/28

CPC classification number: H01Q21/20 ,  H04W16/28

Abstract: A Reconfigurable, Flexible Multi-User (RFMU) electronically steered antenna (ESA) includes a top panel and a number of side panels that enable many contacts simultaneously with varying gain requirements from a single, in situ, installation. The top panel includes multiple subarrays and can communicate with flyover satellites, and the side panels can communicate with satellites flying past a side of the ESA. The top panel and the side panels can achieve a beam steering that covers a full or partial, variable gain, hemispheric field-of-view (FoV). The RFMU ESA terminal top and side panels are scalable using flexible modular building blocks. This enables increased contacts, increased gain or a combination thereof sized to meet desired performance.