公开(公告)号：US20240030597A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18223941

申请日：2023-07-19

Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Inventor： Kim W. Schulze ,  Amir Agah ,  Eric Pepin ,  Mehrdad Nosrati

IPC: H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q3/28 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H01Q3/2658 ,  H01Q3/28 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H04B7/086 ,  H04B7/0617

Abstract: A serially fed front end (FE) network is provided. The serially fed FE network includes a first FE comprising a first FE input/output (IO), a second FE IO, and a first antenna IO coupled to a first antenna element of a plurality of antenna elements. The first FE IO of the first FE is electrically coupled to a particular beamformer (BF) IO of a BF. The serially fed FE network includes a second FE comprising a first FE IO coupled to the second FE IO of the first FE, a second FE IO of the second FE, and a second antenna IO coupled to a second antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements. The BF is communicatively coupled by the serially fed FE network to transmit to and/or receive signals from the first and second antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements.