Satellites; downloadable and recorded software for use with satellites for controlling the orientation of the spacecraft, detecting, isolating and correcting faults on board, configuring onboard equipment, processing data captured by onboard sensors, handling commands from the ground, retrieving telemetry to the ground, routing data from the ground to onboard equipment, monitoring the generation, storage and distribution of power, and monitoring the thermal environment onboard; satellite communication apparatus to transmit data from a satellite to another satellite over a variety of physical layers and receive data from a ground station, amplify it and retransmit it to another ground station over a wide geographical area; satellite apparatus, namely, satellite transceivers and satellite communications terminals, to orient antennas in specific locations of interest, host payloads for communications and remote sensing, and sustain the operation of payloads during the mission lifetime
Electrical and Scientific Apparatus