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| 12505263 | 12/23/2025 | NASA | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Tessellation and connection system for space assembly of modular units | Systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further include determining respective positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes by placing a starting nodal point on an axis of symmetry of the planar lattice pattern and iteratively positioning each nodal point in relation to already placed neighboring nodes to make a distance between a currently positioned nodal point o... |
| 12506534 | 12/23/2025 | DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FR LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. | Bonn, | Method for data transmission from a spacecraft to ground via a free space optical channel | The method for file transmission from a spacecraft to ground via a Free Space Optical channel comprises the use of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) standard with assigning a File ID in the Secondary Header and dividing the transmission of the file into several fractions. The type of fraction, namely Start Transfer Frame, Intermediate Transfer Frame, or End Transfer Frame is identified in the Secondary Header. Also, the File ID, File length, and Name of the file is included in the Secondary Header of the Start Transfer Frame while information about the File ID is includ... |
| 12506535 | 12/23/2025 | Hughes Network Systems | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods | Systems and methods for outroute load balancing in a multi-band hybrid satellite communication system include comparing the load metric of each of code rate organizers (CROs) to a threshold value; placing each CRO in one of a surplus load balancing set and a deficit balancing set based on a value of the load metric; and determining a probability metric for each satellite terminal associated with each of the CROs in the surplus load balancing set. The probability metric indicates a probability of the terminal moving to one of the CROs in the deficit load balancing set. At least one satellite te... |
| 12506536 | 12/23/2025 | Hughes Network Systems | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods | Systems and methods for a satellite communication system include identifying highly active terminals (HUTs) in a spot beam of a satellite; determining a first ratio of single-band HUTs that operate in a first frequency band only to multi-band HUTs that operate in the first frequency band and a second frequency band; and determining a second ratio of outroutes for the first frequency band to outroutes for the second frequency band. When the first ratio is less than the second ratio, a first step of balancing the single-band HUTs across the outroutes for the first frequency band is performed, an... |
| 12506697 | 12/23/2025 | Mentats | Seoul, | Operation method when S and F satellite operation is supported | According to one embodiment, an operation method of user equipment (UE) may comprise: while a timer T3451 is running, not initiating a non-access stratum (NAS) procedure over a SF satellite cell in a tracking area identifier (TAI) list assigned to the UE, unless the SF satellite cell broadcasts a same satellite identifier (ID) broadcasted by the SF satellite cell from which an accept message was received; and receiving a request message. If the UE supports SF satellite operation and if a network is operating in a SF mode, the request message may include a SF satellite operation parameter. The ... |
| 12507078 | 12/23/2025 | SMARTSKY NETWORKS | Raleigh-Cary, NC | Architecture for simultaneous spectrum usage by air-to-ground and terrestrial networks | A network for providing air-to-ground (ATG) wireless communication in various cells may include an in-flight aircraft including an antenna assembly, a plurality of ATG base stations, a plurality of terrestrial base stations. Each of the ATG base stations defines a corresponding radiation pattern, and the ATG base stations are spaced apart from each other to define at least partially overlapping coverage areas to communicate with the antenna assembly in an ATG communication layer defined between a first altitude and a second altitude. The terrestrial base stations are configured to communicate ... |
