AURORA

Telecommunications; satellite telecommunications services; satellite broadcasting; satellite communication services; satellite transmission of sounds, images, signals and data; television program broadcasting (or transmission) by satellite.

Satellites; software-defined satellites; satellites for communication purposes; high throughput satellites (HTS) constellations; satellite apparatus and instruments for telecommunications namely, software-based digital on-board processors, direct radiating array antennas and platform or satellite bus; satellite constellation software suite featuring embedded software, firmware, and real-time digital payload simulator for telecommunication use; modular and digital on-board processor for satellite communications featuring adaptive hybrid regenerative software-defined on-board processing, transparent operating mode, data packet routing, adaptive traffic-driven beam-hopping, and autonomous on-board link adaptation including all data processing apparatus and instruments for communication satellites; digital beam-forming network (DBFN) direct radiating array (DRA) antenna or active antenna or phased array antenna featuring multi-beam transmission and/or reception, digital beam forming/shaping, digital beam steering, digital beam hopping and digital beam nulling.