Satellite switching system (US Patent 4144495)

Patent number: 4144495 Granted: 1979-03-13 Filed: 1977-02-23 Inventors: Sidney Metzger (Kensington, MD, US) Assignees: Communications Satellite Corporation (Washington, DC, US)

Abstract

A multi-beam satellite switching system employs onboard switching for the purpose of increasing the up path and down path antenna gains. A multiplicity of up path antenna beams and of down path antenna beams (not necessarily the same number of each direction) are provided by the system. A number of amplifier systems are distributed across the frequency