SYSTEM WITH TWO SATELLITES WHICH TRANSMIT CARRIER SIGNALS TO A LOCATION ON EARTH WITH PHASES ADJUSTED BASED ON A LASER COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN THE SATELLITES SUCH THAT THE CARRIER SIGNALS WILL MUTUALLY REINFORCE AT THE LOCATION ON EARTH

摘要

A conical region in space with a base at a geosynchronous distance from the earth and the apex of the cone at a point on the ground may be termed a space needle. A multiplicity of small satellites in elliptical orbits located within such a space needle may establish timing of their radio frequency (RF) transmissions forming what may be termed a needle beam downlink having an apparent origin that may be thousands of kilometers to the North or South of a Kepler geosynchronous satellite parking orbit. A noise-like RF signal may be transmitted synchronously from multiple transmitters in space forming a spatially distributed spread spectrum RF needle beam. Applying the method of space-based needle beams to a multiplicity of transmitters on the ground, a network of ground stations may form a ground-based needle beam uplink that may be pointed a given satellite at a given time.