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    The system comprises a constellation of satellites (S1, S2, Sk) placed in low or medium altitude circular orbit (10), user terminals (17) located in the coverage area (13), N anchor stations (34), and ) capable of providing bidirectional communications with the user terminals (17) via at least one satellite. The system further comprises a network of routers (31) interconnected between them and the global internet network (33), each docking station (34) is connected to the global internet network (33) via a router, and each docking station (34) comprises a resource management device (45) and communications failover adapted to control communications failovers between the satellites successively traveling over the coverage area, between the stations of anchoring (34), and simultaneous double tilting of communications between satellites and anchor stations.
    公开号:FR3015816A1
    申请号:FR1303063
    申请日:2013-12-23
    公开日:2015-06-26
    发明作者:Nicolas Chuberre；Judith Cote；Jean Jacques Bruniera；Patrick Benard；Dominique Potuaud
    申请人:Thales SA；
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    [0001] The present invention relates to a satellite communication system for a continuous broadband access service over a coverage area including a satellite transmission system for a continuous broadband access service over a coverage area including at least one polar region. at least one polar region. It applies to broadband telecommunications, of high quality, in particular in C, Ku, Ka or beyond, for fixed, nomadic or embedded terminals on land, aeronautical or maritime mobile platforms. It applies to any type of coverage area including at least one northern or southern polar region. A polar region is a region delimited by a latitude greater than 60 ° in the northern hemisphere or 60 ° in the southern hemisphere. US 6,597,989 discloses a satellite communication system optimized to provide coverage to the high population areas of the northern hemisphere. This system comprises a constellation of satellites in elliptical orbit with an apogee less than 4000km and is optimized to cover in priority the geographic areas with high population density of the northern hemisphere. This system is optimized to provide a maximum capacity above 25 ° N latitude and a reduced capacity between 25 ° N and 50 ° S which does not include the South Pole region.
    [0002] The document "Extension of mobile satellite communications to the polar regions" published in 1984 in the journal "Space communication and broadcasting 2" on pages 33 to 46, describes a constellation of satellites in low circular orbit inclined at 90 °, the satellites being arranged at an altitude of between 1400 km and 1600 km, to provide a mobile L-band, low-speed and intermittent, on the polar areas bounded by latitudes 70 ° North and 70 ° South. This system has the disadvantage of not allowing to provide a broadband service, nor to ensure a continuous service on the polar regions. Documents US 5,410,728 and US 5,604,920 describe a constellation of 66 satellites distributed over 11 planes of an orbit inclined at 86.4 ° at an altitude of 781 km to provide an L-band mobile service over a global coverage. including both poles. This system has links ka band connection to anchor stations. The capacity of Ka-band resources, however, is not sufficient on the poles to meet future needs identified for 2020. In particular, broadband capacity needs are estimated at 250 to 400 Mbps at latitudes above 75 °. North and 4000 Mbps, at latitudes above 66 ° North. There are also satellite communication systems with a constellation of satellites in very elliptical orbits, such as the Molniya or Tundra constellations, which cover northern regions. However, these constellations have an apogee located at about 40000km, which results in a unidirectional transit time too large, greater than 300ms, and contributes to degrade the quality of service of real-time communications with a terminal. In addition, these systems are optimized to provide continuous service in only one of the two polar regions. A first object of the invention is to overcome the disadvantages of known satellite communication systems, and to realize a satellite communication system 20 for a continuous broadband access service over a coverage area including at least one polar region North or South. A second object of the invention is to provide a satellite communication system which guarantees a unidirectional transit time of less than 150 msec of high quality for interactive telecommunications applications with a high real-time constraint, such as telephony. and videotelephony. A third object of the invention is to minimize the cost of deployment and maintenance of the satellite constellation while avoiding radiation belts, and to minimize the number of launches needed to deploy and replace failed satellites while minimizing fuel consumption. For this purpose, the invention relates to a satellite communication system for a continuous high-speed access service over a terrestrial coverage area including at least one polar region, comprising a constellation of satellites placed in circular orbit around the Earth. low or medium altitude, user terminals located in the coverage area, at least two anchor stations distributed on the surface of the Earth and able to provide two-way communication with the user terminals via at least one satellite scrolling over the coverage area. The system further comprises a network of routers interconnected to each other and to the global internet network via dedicated local terrestrial communication channels, each docking station is connected to the global internet network via the network of routers, and each station anchoring comprises a resource management and failover device capable of controlling communications failovers between the satellites moving successively over the coverage area, between the anchoring stations, and simultaneous double switching of communications between satellites and anchorage stations. Advantageously, each anchor station, each router, each satellite and each user terminal may comprise a respective navigation receiver enabling them to synchronize with each other and to synchronize all communications failovers between the satellites and / or the anchor stations. . Advantageously, at each instant, the user terminals and the anchor stations providing communications to the user terminals are located in an area of visibility of at least one satellite and in that the visibility areas of two consecutive satellites include a zone called switching zone, the switching of the communications to a user terminal being made when the user terminal is in the tilting zone.
    [0003] Advantageously, the system may further comprise an operations planning center connected to the anchor stations via the router network, the operations planning center being able to regularly receive the ephemeris of each satellite of the constellation and to develop a general plan of all the 3015 816 4 switching communications to achieve successively over time between satellites and / or between anchor stations. Advantageously, each anchoring station may comprise at least two orientable directional antennas respectively associated with two transmission and reception channels of frequency-multiplexed signals, able to be respectively pointed towards two consecutive satellites of the constellation and to serve one or several user cells simultaneously via one or two consecutive satellites of the constellation. Advantageously, each user terminal comprises at least one directional antenna associated with at least one transmission and reception chain of a radiofrequency signal on bidirectional radiofrequency links established by one or two anchoring stations with one or two satellites of the 15 constellation. Advantageously, each satellite of the constellation may comprise two orientable directional antennas associated with radiofrequency signal transmission and reception channels for relaying radiofrequency links established by two different anchor stations to user cells and suitable switching means. to activate or interrupt one or more radiofrequency links established by either of the two anchor stations with the user cells. Advantageously, the system comprises at least two anchoring stations located inside or outside the coverage area. According to a particular embodiment, the system comprises two coverage areas covering the two Arctic and Antarctic polar regions, a constellation of satellites placed in circular orbit around the Earth, on a single orbital plane inclined at an angle between ° and 90 ° with respect to the equatorial terrestrial plane, the satellites being equi-distributed around the Earth at an altitude less than or equal to 20000 km, user terminals located in the two zones of coverage constituted of the two polar zones at the latitudes respectively greater than + 60 ° and less than -60 °, and at least two anchor stations (34) per polar coverage area.
    [0004] According to another particular embodiment, the system comprises a coverage area including at least the two Arctic and Antarctic polar regions, a constellation of satellites placed in circular orbit around the Earth, on several orbital planes equidistant from each other and inclined at an angle of between 80 ° and 90 ° to the Earth's equatorial plane, the satellites being equi-distributed around the Earth at an altitude less than or equal to 20000 km, user terminals located in the coverage area, and a set of anchor stations distributed over the coverage area. Other features and advantages of the invention will become clear in the remainder of the description given by way of purely illustrative and nonlimiting example, with reference to the appended diagrammatic drawings which represent: FIG. 1 a: a diagram of a first example constellation according to the invention; FIG. 1b: a diagram of a second constellation example, according to the invention; FIG. 2: a schematic sectional example illustrating the minimum elevation angles of the anchor stations and terminals and the visibility zones of a satellite by user terminals and anchor stations and a coverage area in which service continuity is ensured for the user terminals, according to the invention; FIG. 3: a diagram illustrating the fingerprints on the Earth of different zones, seen by two consecutive satellites, according to the invention; FIG. 4: an example of implantation zones of three anchoring stations making it possible to ensure continuous service throughout the coverage zone including a pole, according to the invention; FIG. 5: a first phase of a scenario of switching of a user terminal covered by a global beam with a mobile footprint on the ground requiring a double changeover in the case of an example of ground configuration of three user terminals located in the zone cover and three anchoring stations located outside the coverage area, according to the invention; FIG. 6: a second tilting phase corresponding to the example of FIG. 5, according to the invention; FIG. 7: a third tilting phase corresponding to the example of FIG. 5, according to the invention; FIG. 8: a fourth tilting phase corresponding to the example of FIG. 5, according to the invention; FIG. 9: an example of a progressive changeover of the user terminals situated in the zone of intersection of the visibility zones of two consecutive satellites, according to one embodiment of the invention; FIG. 10: an example of a scenario in which user terminals are located in three user cells ce111, cell2, cell3 located at different locations of the user coverage area, the three anchor stations being located outside the user cover, according to one embodiment of the invention; FIG. 11a: an example of a scenario in which user terminals are located in three user cells ce111, cell2, cell3 located at different locations of the user coverage area, the three anchor stations being located inside the zone user cover according to another embodiment of the invention; FIG. 11b: a tilting phase corresponding to the example of FIG. 11a, according to the invention; FIG. 12: an example of a global architecture of the satellite communication system, according to the invention; FIG. 13 is a block diagram of an exemplary architecture of an anchoring station, according to the invention; FIGS. 14a, 14b and 14c: three block diagrams corresponding to three examples of user terminal architecture, according to the invention; FIG. 15: a diagram of an exemplary architecture of the payload of a satellite of the constellation, according to the invention; FIG. 16 is a diagram of an exemplary tilting of the radiofrequency links between two satellites, according to the invention; FIG. 17: a diagram of an exemplary tilting of the radiofrequency links between two anchoring stations, according to the invention; FIG. 18: a diagram of an example of dual tilting of the radiofrequency links simultaneously between two satellites and two anchoring stations, according to the invention; FIG. 19: a diagram of an exemplary architecture of a router, according to the invention. In order to relay communications within a maximum transit time of 150 ms per communication direction, the invention consists in deploying a constellation of satellites on a low or medium altitude orbital plane around the Earth, in a circular orbit 10, and to connect GW1, GW2, GW3 anchor stations to connection points of the global Internet network 33 by terrestrial communications means. In the case where the user coverage area 13 is to be extended to low latitude regions, the constellation must be augmented by several satellites deployed on other orbital planes of the same inclination and altitude as the initial orbital plane. For example, when the user coverage area 13 relates to the two North and South polar regions at latitudes greater than 60 °, it is particularly advantageous to have the satellites S1, S2,..., Sk, equi-distributed on a circular orbit 10 at low or medium altitude, 25 on a single inclined plane of an angle between 80 ° and 90 ° relative to the equatorial plane. The single-plane configuration of the constellation minimizes the number of satellites required to provide continuity of service on both poles and also minimizes the number of launches required for constellation deployment. In addition, this makes it possible to minimize the number of launches for the replacement of a possible defective satellite, while reducing the number of necessary maneuvers and thus optimizing fuel consumption. The choice of the altitude of the satellites in the constellation shall take into account the maximum unidirectional transit time constraint of 150 ms 35 and shall take into account the waveform transmission delay and the minimum elevation angles for anchor stations and terminals can communicate with the satellites. The minimum elevation angles depend on the operational constraints of the user terminals and anchor stations. Typically, the minimum elevation angle for user terminals is greater than the minimum elevation angle for docking stations. By way of nonlimiting example, the minimum elevation angle can be chosen of the order of 5 ° for the anchoring stations and of the order of 10 to 15 ° for the user terminals. In this case, in order to offer high-speed communications with a quality of service comparable to that of the fixed and mobile terrestrial networks, it is advantageous that the altitude of the satellites is less than or equal to approximately 20000 km and that the anchor stations can be connected to the global internet network by terrestrial means of communication to guarantee a unidirectional transit delay of less than 150 ms.
    [0005] FIG. 1a illustrates a first constellation example according to the invention in which several satellites are placed around the Earth in a circular orbit passing over the two polar regions. The satellites S1, S2, ... Sk, five in number in the example, are placed in a single inclined orbital plane at an angle of between 80 ° and 90 °, the angle of inclination being determined in a conventional manner. , in relation to the equatorial plane. The inclined orbit at an angle of between 80 ° and 90 ° ensures that the coverage achieved successively by each satellite when traveling over the poles is uniform regardless of the rotation of the Earth relative to the orbital plane. To meet the unidirectional transit time constraint of less than 150ms and minimize the number of anchor stations to be deployed to provide continuity of service on both polar coverage areas, the satellite altitude may, for example, be about 7000 km. This provides continuity of service for user terminals in the two polar coverage areas at latitudes greater than 60 ° N and 60 ° S in the northern and southern hemispheres, respectively, and operating at a minimum elevation angle. , which can be chosen for example at 10 °. FIG. 1b shows a second constellation example according to the invention in which several satellites are placed around the Earth in different circular orbits 10a, 10b, 10c passing above the two polar regions. The Sk satellites are placed in circular orbit around the Earth, on several orbital planes equi-distant from each other and inclined at an angle between 80 ° and 90 ° with respect to the terrestrial equatorial plane. For each orbital plane, the satellites are evenly distributed in the orbit at an altitude less than or equal to 20000 km. The minimum elevation angles define an area of visibility of the satellites by the user terminals and an area of visibility of the satellites by the anchor stations. FIG. 2 represents a schematic example illustrating the minimum elevation angle θ of the anchor stations and the minimum elevation angle α of user terminals and the visibility zone limits 11, 12 of the satellite S1 by the terminals. users and by the anchor stations and an example of coverage area limit 13 corresponding to the user terminals and coverage area limit 14 corresponding to the anchor stations. The footprints of the different visibility zones of two consecutive satellites S1, S2 by the user terminals and by the anchor stations and the coverage area are shown in FIG. 3. The satellite visibility zone 12a, 12b by the anchor stations, called station visibility zone, is larger than the visibility zone 11a, 11b of the satellites by the user terminals, called the user visibility zone. Due to the scrolling of the satellites over the coverage area, the footprint of the satellite visibility areas by the user terminals 17 and the anchor stations are movable over time. At each instant, the coverage area 13 is covered by one, two or even three consecutive satellites 25, each satellite being regularly replaced by another satellite succeeding it immediately in the order of the direction of travel 16 above the coverage area 13. For example, for the two polar zones, the northern hemisphere is covered by one, two or three consecutive satellites moving over the North Pole, and the southern hemisphere is covered by one, two or three other consecutive satellites passing by. above the South Pole. In FIGS. 2 and 3, the visibility zones of the two consecutive satellites S1 and S2 partially overlap, the overlap zone 15 corresponding to a double-visibility zone. For each coverage area including a polar region, North or South, the continuous service is provided by one, two or three satellites which must relay the radiofrequency link between user terminals located inside the coverage area and the stations. anchorage that may be located inside or outside the coverage area. A service may be delivered to a user terminal if at least one satellite is able to simultaneously see the user terminal and an anchor station to relay the radio frequency link between them. For this, the satellite must have developed a beam to the terminal and a beam to the docking station. According to the invention, the satellites being constantly in motion on the orbit 10 and the Earth being rotated about the axis 18 joining the two poles, the communication system must regularly switch the communications of the user terminals 17 of a first satellite S1 coming out of the visibility zone towards a second satellite S2 entering the visibility zone and / or from an anchoring station to another anchoring station. The communication system must therefore include switching means making it possible to perform several types of failover to ensure continuity of service. The first type of failover consists of a satellite change to maintain the radio frequency link between a user terminal 20 and an anchor station. This switching occurs when the user terminal and the anchoring station are in the visibility zone 15 of two successive satellites, S1, S2, also called double-visibility zone or tilting zone. The second type of failover consists of a change of satellite and docking station to maintain communication between a user terminal and an Internet connection point 33 to which the telecommunication system is connected. This switching occurs when the user terminal is located in the tilting zone 15 while its anchor station does not see the new satellite which requires to switch the radiofrequency link to another anchor station seen by the new satellite . The third type of failover consists of a change of anchor station. This switching occurs when a user terminal is not in a tilting zone, that is to say that it is not seen by two consecutive satellites, but that the anchoring station that serves it will go out of the satellite visibility area which requires switching the radiofrequency link to another anchor station seen by the same satellite. In each of the first two types of failover, the communication system must allow two radio frequency links to be established simultaneously for a minimum duration in order to organize the switchover without interrupting the communication. In the third type of failover, the system must allow the satellite to see the two anchor stations for a minimum time to organize the switchover. The tilts are made in a tilting zone corresponding to the double visibility zone 15 of two consecutive satellites. In this double visibility zone where the terminals see the two consecutive satellites simultaneously, the two consecutive satellites can communicate with the terminals and with the anchor stations. The double-visibility zone of the two consecutive satellites makes it possible to have a minimum period of time during which it is possible to perform a switchover (in English: hand-over) of the communications between the terminals and the anchor stations. a satellite leaving the visibility zone on another satellite entering the visibility zone, without interrupting the communication and thus ensuring continuity of service. Each satellite has fixed or steerable directional antennas to respectively develop user beams with a scrolling footprint called global cells and beams with a fixed footprint called user cells to cover all or part of the coverage area. in addition to each satellite has steerable directional antennas to develop station beams with a fixed footprint on the ground for anchor stations. The user beams are steerable and can be directed to any location in the coverage area according to the traffic demand thereby increasing local resources in terms of bandwidth or throughput. The pointing direction of each beam is continuously adjusted to compensate for the movement of the satellite. The adjustment can be achieved by mechanical or active or hybrid antennas. The adjustment makes it possible to obtain, for each beam, a fixed footprint on the ground. The overall beam is fixed relative to the satellite but its footprint is mobile and follows the movement of the satellite. Its footprint is the area of visibility of the satellite by the user terminals. Station beams may be pointed to anchor stations at any point in the satellite's visibility area by the anchor stations. The anchoring stations can be deployed inside or outside the coverage area but must be located near terrestrial communication means allowing their interconnection to the Internet network, the terrestrial communication means being able for example to be a fiber optic network or terrestrial radio-relay systems. Currently, the deployment of anchor stations outside the coverage area is necessary at the South Pole because interconnection with the global terrestrial Internet network is only possible on the 15 South American continents, for example the south of Chile, oceanic, for example the south of New Zealand, or African, for example South Africa. These continents are located at latitudes outside the coverage area. But for the North Pole, anchor stations can be deployed within the coverage area. In addition, the minimum elevation angle of operation stress of the anchor stations to allow correct communications must be respected. Two anchor stations are sufficient to provide continuous service on an area near the anchor stations. With respect to the poles, three anchoring stations angularly spaced apart from each other with respect to the pole may be used to provide continuous service over the entire user coverage area including a polar region delimited by 60 ° latitude. The angular spacing in longitude between two anchoring stations should ideally be between 80 ° and 160 ° to compensate for the rotation of the orbital plane around the Earth and thus ensure continuous service over any part of the coverage area delimited by a latitude. The three anchor stations may for example be distributed around the coverage area so as to form three vertices of a triangle centered on the axis of rotation of the Earth. As represented for example in FIG. 4, the three anchor stations 35 may be arranged outside the coverage zone, for example in three respective zones 21, 22, 23 angularly spaced around the coverage zone 13 and therefore around the axis of rotation North / South 18 of the Earth when the coverage area is a pole. Depending on the location of the different user terminals in the coverage area and the location of the anchor stations inside or outside the coverage area, different phases of failover may be required during scrolling of two consecutive satellites above each coverage area. FIG. 5 represents a first tilting phase requiring a double tilting of the anchor station and of the satellite. In this example, three user terminals UT1, UT2, UT3 are located in the coverage area 13 and three anchor stations GW1, GW2, GW3 are located outside the coverage area. In this example, all user terminals are served by a global beam from a satellite. The direction 16 of the scrolling of the satellites represented by the dashed arrow is assumed to be a horizontal scroll from left to right in FIG. 5. The visibility zones of the two consecutive satellites, respectively incoming and outgoing, move in the same direction as the satellites, so from left to right. In this example, all the user terminals UT1, UT2, UT3 located in the coverage area 13 are served by the anchoring station GW2 by the outgoing satellite since the anchoring station GW2 is located inside the visibility of the outgoing satellite. However, the user terminal UT1 currently located in the dual visibility zone 15 of the two satellites, that is to say in the tilting zone, will soon leave the user's viewing area 11a of the outgoing satellite. It will therefore be necessary to switch this user UT1 to the incoming satellite. Since the anchor station GW2 is not located in the station 12b visibility zone of the incoming satellite, it will also be necessary to switch the user UT1 to the anchoring station GW3 which is the only one located in the zone of station 12b visibility of incoming satellite. In this configuration example, in order to ensure the continuity of the service, a double changeover must therefore be performed to simultaneously replace the outgoing satellite by the incoming satellite and the anchoring station GW2 by the anchoring station GW3. No switching is necessary for the user terminals UT2 and UT3 located outside the tilting zone 15. For the same ground configuration of the user terminals and docking stations as that of FIG. 5, as shown on FIG. 6, after the switching of the user terminals UT1 which are now served by the anchoring station GW3 via the incoming satellite, a second switching phase is necessary. This second switching phase comprises a double tilting of anchor station and satellite for one of the UT2 users as described in connection with Figure 5, and a simple tilting anchor for a second user UT3. Indeed, given the direction 16 of the incoming and outgoing satellite movement, the user terminal UT2, currently located in the tilting zone 15, will soon leave the user's viewing area 11a of the outgoing satellite. The user terminal UT2 is therefore in the same situation as the terminal UT1 in the first switching phase and must therefore undergo the same type of switching as described in connection with FIG. 5. In addition, the anchor station GW2 which is currently used the user terminal UT3 via the outgoing satellite will soon leave the station 12a outgoing visibility area of the outgoing satellite and is not yet in the station 12b visibility area of the incoming satellite, it is necessary to switch the user terminals UT3 to another anchor station GW1 which is currently in the station 12a visibility zone of the outgoing satellite. For the same ground configuration of the terminals and anchor stations as that of FIG. 5, as shown in FIG. 7, after the switching of the user terminals UT1 and UT2 which are now served by the anchoring station GW3 by via the incoming satellite and the switching of the user terminals UT3 which are now served by the anchoring station GW1 via the outgoing satellite, a third switching phase is required. Indeed, the docking station 30 GW3 will soon leave the station 12b visibility area of the incoming satellite and can no longer serve the user terminals UT1 and UT2. It is therefore necessary to switch these two user terminals to the anchor station GW2. For the same floor configuration of the terminals and anchor stations as that of FIG. 5, as shown in FIG. 8, a fourth tilt phase is required. Indeed, the user terminal UT3 is now in the tilting zone 15 and will soon leave the user visibility zone 11a of the outgoing satellite. It must therefore switch to the incoming satellite and the anchor station GW2 which is in station 12b visibility area of the incoming satellite. No switching of the other user terminals UT1 and UT2 is necessary in this fourth phase. The four phases described in connection with FIGS. 5 to 8 are repeated at the rate of satellite scrolling and the switching procedures can therefore be programmed in advance. Depending on the size of the user cells, the procedure for switching the user terminals of a radio frequency link to the other can be carried out gradually or simultaneously. When the diameter of the user cell is greater than the minimum width of the double visibility zone 15, the tilting of the terminals can be achieved only gradually. In other cases, there is the choice between a progressive or simultaneous switching of the terminals. FIG. 9 illustrates an example of a progressive changeover with the highlighting of the double visibility zone 15 in which the terminals can be switched over. As this dual visibility zone 15 moves at the speed of the satellites, all the terminals covered by a global beam can be switched. Figures 10, 11a, 11b show configuration examples in which user terminals are located in three different user cells ce111, cell2, cell3 located at different locations in the coverage area. In the example of FIG. 10, the three anchoring stations GW1, GW2, GW3 are distributed outside the coverage zone 13. In FIGS. 11a and 11b, three anchoring stations GW1, GW2, GW3 are distributed within the coverage area 13, in three different regions. The configuration of anchor stations within the coverage area is only possible at the North Pole, where connection to the Internet is possible within the coverage area. In the configuration of FIG. 10, the user cells ce111 and cell2 are served by the anchor station GW2 via the outgoing satellite and do not require tilting, whereas the cell3 user cell currently served by the station GW2 anchoring through the outgoing satellite will have to switch to the GW3 docking station and the incoming satellite. In the configuration of FIG. 11a, the user cell ce111 is served by the anchoring station GW1 via the outgoing satellite, the user cell cell2 is served by the anchoring station GW2 via the outgoing satellite and the cell3 user cell is served by the GW3 docking station via the incoming satellite. No switchover is necessary at the moment.
    [0006] FIG. 11b represents a tilting phase requiring satellite tilting, for a ground configuration of user cells 17 and anchor stations identical to that of FIG. 11a. In this example, the cell2 user cell served by the anchoring station GW2 via the outgoing satellite is in the tilting zone 15 and will soon leave the station 12a visibility zone of the outgoing satellite. It is therefore necessary to switch collectively all the user terminals of this cell2 cell on the incoming satellite. No tilting of the anchor station is necessary. For mobile user terminals from one user cell to another user cell, the communication system can also arrange individual failovers. FIG. 12 illustrates an example of a global architecture of the satellite communication system, according to the invention. The communication system comprises user terminals 17 and anchor stations 34 which serve the user terminals via one or two satellites S1, S2 of the constellation. The satellites are intended to transparently relay the radio frequency links established between one or more docking stations and a set of user cells distributed in the coverage area 13. Each docking station 34 is connected to the Internet 33 by The routers 31, an exemplary architecture of which is shown in FIG. 19, are interconnected by dedicated local communication channels and route the traffic between the user cells 17 and the network. Internet 33 through the docking stations 34. Each router 31 includes a navigation receiver 36, a failover management device 37 and a traffic routing device 38 exchanged between each user cell and an access point. 33. Each router 31 is responsible for routing or duplicating traffic between the other routers and the radio stations. ncrage 34 serving the user cells. In addition, the communication system includes a Network Operation Center (NOC) 32 which determines the occurrences and types of failover that must be executed over time by the satellites, the stations anchoring and routers, for each of the user cells or for each of the isolated terminals in the coverage area 13 covered by a global beam. Each of the routers, docking stations, satellites are equipped with a navigation receiver that allows them to synchronize temporally with the center 32 for planning network operations. The network operations planning center 32 is connected to each of the anchor stations and each router via the terrestrial communication channels as well as to the satellites via control, measurement and telemetry stations (in English: Telemetry, Command and Ranging Station or TCR) which are in radiofrequency link with all the satellites of the constellation. The operations planning center 32 is capable of controlling the satellites, the anchor stations and the routers via a dedicated local communication network and is able to timestamp precisely the failovers to be achieved by means of a navigation receiver. It communicates this timestamped failover plan to satellites and docking stations for synchronized execution of all failovers. The operations planning center 32 regularly receives the real ephemeris of each satellite S1, S2, Sk of the constellation, where k is an integer greater than one. From the received ephemeris, the operations planning center 32 calculates and plans all the tilts that each anchor station 34 must control over time. The general failover plan is carried out for each user cell 17 of the coverage area 13 and includes the initial time and the time during which the switchover must be made, the type of switchover to be made and which satellite and / or which station is to be used. anchoring is concerned. The operations planning center 32 regularly sends updates of the general failover plan to all the anchor stations 34, to the satellites S1, S2,... Sk and to the routers 31. Thanks to the general failover plan transmitted by the operations planning center 32, each docking station 34 knows at any time the user cells 17 that it must be used with a user beam or the area it is to serve with a global beam and through which satellite. As shown schematically in the architecture example of FIG. 13, in order to switch between two satellites, each anchoring station 34 must comprise at least two orientable directional antenna systems 50, 51, each antenna system enabling the pursuit of a satellite. Each antenna system comprises a transmit and receive antenna respectively associated with a dedicated transmit and receive chain 46, 48 and a dedicated control unit 47, 49. Each antenna system is able to continue the satellites anywhere above a predetermined minimum elevation angle, for example equal to 5 °, and is adapted to transmit and receive modulated radio frequency signals to each user cell, on forward and backward links, simultaneously via two satellites of the constellation. Each docking station 34 has an interface 42 with a router 31 connected to the Internet 33, and two modulation and demodulation devices 43, 44 called modems, connected to the interface 42 and connected to each of the two antenna systems. transmission and reception 50, 51 to ensure continuous continuous service. Each anchor station is thus able to point its antennas to two different satellites to simultaneously serve user cells via the two satellites. In addition, each docking station has several modulation and demodulation devices to serve all the cells of a coverage area using a single satellite. Each docking station comprises a navigation receiver 41 for receiving navigation signals from a navigation system, for example of the GNSS (in English: Global Navigation Satellite System) type to synchronize with the other anchor stations. , with the 32 center of operations planning and with the different satellites. Each anchor station 34 is responsible for allocating and managing the radio frequency resources to the different user terminals 17 on the forward and backward links of two consecutive satellites S1, S2 of the constellation on which its antennas are pointed and of the management of different failovers (hand-over). For this, each docking station comprises a resource management device 45 and failover links connected to the two control units 47, 49 of the two antenna systems 50, 51. The management device 45 of the resources and tilts day list of user terminals located in each cell, their connection statuses and their service requests. In addition, the resources and failover management device 45 comprises a general radio frequency resource plan which defines the configuration of all the carriers used in the user cells, such as the carrier frequency, the modulation code, the data rate. , the transmission window. The dynamic allocation of the radio frequency resources to the user terminals depends on the bandwidth requirements requested by each user terminal. The docking stations perform the failovers programmed by the operations planning center 32. As shown in the examples of FIGS. 14a, 14b and 14c, each user terminal may comprise one or two transmitting and receiving directional antennas 61, 62 able to track a satellite to establish a radio frequency link. Each antenna is associated with a respective transmission chain 52, 53, with a respective reception chain 54, 55 and a respective control unit 56, 57 and is capable of operating with an elevation angle greater than an angle d predetermined minimum elevation.
    [0007] The elevation angle of the user terminals may for example be between 10 ° and 90 °. The presence of two antennas ensures a permanent service without temporary interruption when the direction of pointing must be changed. Indeed, with two antennas it is possible to simultaneously establish a first bidirectional radio frequency link with a first satellite and a second bidirectional radiofrequency link with a second satellite before switching communications from the first satellite to the second satellite. In FIG. 14a, each user terminal comprises an interface 63 intended to be connected to a local terrestrial communication network and a signal encoder / decoder device 64 connected to the transmission to a modulator 65 and to reception, to a first demodulator 66 and a second demodulator 67. The modulator 65 and the first demodulator 66 respectively make it possible to transmit and receive signals to an anchoring station 34 via a first satellite S1. The second demodulator 67 makes it possible to synchronize signals relayed by a second satellite S2, the relayed signals coming from a forward link of the same anchor station 34. This makes it possible to prepare the user terminal for a satellite switchover without interrupting the communication. established on the forward link. The modulator 65, the first demodulator 66 and the second demodulator 67 are connected to the two transmit and receive antennas 61, 62. If necessary, to simultaneously transmit signals to the user terminals via two different satellites it is possible to add a second modulator to avoid losing data packets on the back link. In FIG. 14b, the user terminal comprises a first modulator 65 and a first demodulator 66 connected to the first transmitting and receiving antenna 52 and a second modulator 69 and a second demodulator 67 connected to the second transmitting and receiving antenna. The two modulators 65, 69 and the two demodulators 66, 67 are connected to the interface 63 via a multiplexer 70. In FIG. 14c, the user terminal having only one antenna transmission and reception 61, a single modulator 65 and a single demodulator 66 are required. In the case of a single antenna, it is not possible to simultaneously establish a first two-way radiofrequency link with a first satellite and a second two-way radio frequency link with a second satellite and an interruption of service will take place during satellite switchover. . Each user terminal is regularly informed by the anchoring stations on the updated ephemeris corresponding to each satellite, on the planned failovers corresponding to the cell in which it is located, on the carrier frequencies to be used for the transmission and reception of signals with the new satellite, on the location of the anchor stations. Each user terminal is equipped with a navigation receiver 68 for synchronizing its internal clock and for obtaining temporal information relating to the various anchoring stations, the operations planning center and the various satellites. Each user terminal determines the time windows during which it can switch satellite according to the planned procedure and directs the pointing of its free antenna to the new satellite. FIG. 15 represents an example of architecture of the payload of a satellite Sk of the constellation in the case of a dual multibeam and global beam mission. In this example, the satellite payload can simultaneously serve p user cells from two different docking stations and a global coverage area. Each user cell can be served by either of the two anchor stations. When a user cell must undergo an anchor switch, the satellite is able to simultaneously point its two directional antennas to the two anchor stations that are affected by the switchover. The payload of the satellite comprises two transmit and receive directional antennas 83, 84 intended, in the forward direction, to receive multiplexed radiofrequency signals from two different anchoring stations. The two antennas are connected to two respective radio frequency channels for routing the signals from two docking stations to user cells where user terminals are located. Each radio frequency chain comprises a low-noise amplifier 85, a frequency converter 86 making it possible to pass from the reception frequency band to the transmission frequency band, a demultiplexer 87a, 87b making it possible to separate the signals into independent p-channels operating in p different frequency bands for serving p different user cells and p channel amplifiers 88a, 88b for adjusting the gain of each channel. At their output, the channel amplifiers of the two radiofrequency channels dedicated to the same frequency are connected in pairs by p signal combiners 89 before being amplified by power amplifiers 90 and then transmitted on the one hand by p antennas transmission and reception in the form of p beams 91 different to the user cells. To enable switching between two anchor stations without interrupting the service, the low-noise amplifier 85 of each radio frequency chain is provided with a switching device 93 for activating or deactivating the reception of the signals on the radio. the corresponding antenna to which it is connected and thus select the signals from a predetermined GW anchor station. The switching device 93 can be actuated before and after each tilting of the anchor station. In addition, each channel amplifier 88a, 88b also includes a switching device 94a, 94b for enabling or disabling a channel and thereby selecting the docking station that will serve a predetermined user cell during a station switchover. anchor. The activation or deactivation control signals 95 of the low-noise amplifiers and channel amplifiers are driven by the on-board computer from the general tilt plane sent by the operations planning center 32. The navigation receiver 101 enables the satellite to synchronize the execution of the failovers with the anchoring stations 34, the routers 31 and the user terminals 17 of the communication system. In the return direction, the radio frequency signal bundles from the user cells are received by the transmitting and receiving antennas 92 and processed by a radiofrequency channel. The radio frequency chain comprises p low noise amplifiers 96, a signal multiplexer 97 in which the signals of the received beams are combined in frequency. The combined signals are converted into frequency in a converter 98 and then divided into two independent multiplexed radio frequency signals by a power divider 99 before being amplified by amplifiers 100 and transmitted by the two directional antennas 83, 84 to two anchor stations different. This architecture allows a switching operation of the communications of a user cell between two anchor stations without changing the satellite. A switchover between two satellites must be executed when a user terminal can continue to be served by the same anchor station but the satellite relaying communications between the user terminal and the anchor station must be replaced by another as shown in the diagram of FIG. 16. In this case, the switching of the service from the first satellite S1 to the second satellite S2 programmed by the operations planning center 32 is initiated by the anchoring station 34. tilting, the anchor station 34 which provides the service for the user cells 17 comprises a first antenna pointed towards a first satellite S1, the communications between the anchor station 34 and the first satellite being made by the first link bidirectional radiofrequency 81a. The user terminals 17 located in the user cells also have their first antenna pointed to the first satellite S1 with which they communicate via the bidirectional radiofrequency link 81b. To perform a switchover, the docking station 34 synchronizes its internal clock on the clock of the second satellite S2 and compensates for the Doppler effect, that is to say the offset of the carrier frequency, due to the movement of the second satellite compared to the anchor station. The compensation of the Doppler effect consists of a registration of the carrier frequencies used on the radiofrequency link between the anchoring station and the second satellite. The anchor station then points its second antenna to the second satellite S2. When the pointing is complete, the docking station 34 can begin transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals on the second radio frequency link 82a with the second satellite S2 using the same carrier frequencies as those used on the first radio frequency link 81 with the first one. satellite. As soon as the second radiofrequency link 82a is established, the second satellite S2 can then relay the radiofrequency signals between the anchor station 34 and the user terminals 17. The anchor station then sends a control signal to the user terminals by the intermediate of its first antenna and the first satellite S1 so that the user terminals 17 point their second antenna to the second satellite S2. As soon as the pointing of the second antenna of the user terminals is finished, the user terminals send a message to the anchor station via their first antenna and the first satellite S1 so that it removes the first radiofrequency link 81a with the first satellite S1, then they can cut their first radiofrequency link 81b to the first satellite and start transmitting on the second bidirectional radio frequency link 82b with the second satellite S2. The user terminals also send a specific signal on the second radiofrequency link 82b to the anchor station 34 via their second antenna and the second satellite S2. The specific signal enables the docking station to measure time and frequency synchronization errors of the user terminals and to transmit to the user terminals, via the second satellite, measured error correction commands so as to enable the synchronization of the data transmitted on the links back and forth. The docking station also sends a control signal to the first satellite to stop relaying the signals between the docking station and the radio frequency terminals, then the docking station stops transmitting communications on the first radio link with the first satellite. This satellite switching procedure is particularly advantageous because it avoids transmitting data simultaneously on two radiofrequency links 81a, 82a via two satellites and allows the user terminals to need only one modulator and one a single encoder as shown in Figure 14b instead of two. However, during the time necessary to synchronize the user terminals, there may be a slight interruption of service if the user terminals have cut their link with the first satellite before synchronization is established. If it is desired to avoid any interruption of service, it is preferable to ensure that the synchronization is established before terminating the communication of the user terminals with the first satellite and that the user terminals are able to communicate simultaneously with the two satellites while synchronization, which can be achieved with the embodiment shown in Figure 14a. Figure 17 shows a switchover of communications between two anchor stations. This type of failover is necessary when an anchoring station 34a which serves a user terminal 17 via a satellite S1, leaves the visibility area of this satellite S1 but the user terminal 17 is still in the zone of visibility of this satellite, as shown in particular, the example of Figure 7. The anchor stations 34a, 34b are all connected together via the global Internet network 33, they communicate with each other by the intermediary of the Internet network. According to the tilt program established by the operations planning center 32, the second anchor station 34b which includes an available directional antenna points this available antenna to the same satellite S1 as the first anchor station 34a and simultaneously synchronizes its antenna. internal clock and its carrier frequencies on those of the first docking station. Then the first docking station 34a transmits to the second docking station 34b, the list of user cells to serve and the radio frequency resources they need. The first docking station 34a further requests the router 31a to which it is directly connected to reroute the traffic of the user cells to the second docking station 34b via the router 31b to which it is connected. Then the second docking station 34b can begin to communicate with the user cell terminals via the satellite using the same carrier frequencies as those used by the first docking station. In the case where it is necessary to perform a double tilting of the communications between two satellites S1, S2 and between two anchoring stations 34a, 34b, as represented in the example of FIG. 18, the first anchoring station 34a serves the user cells 17 via the first satellite S1, must be replaced by the second anchor station 34b and the first satellite S1 must be replaced by the second satellite S2. The anchor stations are all connected together via the Internet 33, they communicate with each other via the Internet. According to the tilt program established by the operations planning center 32, the second anchor station 34b which includes an available directional antenna points this available antenna to the second satellite S2 and simultaneously synchronizes its internal clock and its carrier frequencies to those of the first anchor station 34a. Then the first docking station transmits to the second docking station, the list of user cells to serve and the radio frequency resources they need. The first docking station further requests the router 31a to which it is connected to reroute the traffic of the user cells to the second docking station via the router 31b and requests the user terminals 17 to point their second antenna to the second satellite S2 While the user terminals point their second antenna for example from the ephemeris of the second satellite or from the pursuit of a beacon signal of the second satellite, the first anchor station starts sending to the second station anchor, the resource allocation plan to assign to user cells. Then the second docking station can begin to communicate with the user cells via the second satellite using the same carrier frequencies as those used by the first docking station with the first satellite and the user terminals can begin acquiring the signals transmitted by the second anchor station via the second satellite. According to the schedule switching schedule planned by the operations planning center 32, the second satellite S2 can then start relaying the radio frequency signals between the second docking station 34b and the user cells 17, and after a synchronization step from a specific signal sent by the user terminals as described above in connection with FIG. 16, the first satellite can stop relaying the radiofrequency signals between the user cells and the first docking station. The first docking station can then stop transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals via the first satellite. Although the invention has been described in connection with particular embodiments, it is obvious that it is not limited thereto and that it includes all the technical equivalents of the means described and their combinations if they are within the scope of the invention.
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    Claims (10)
    [0001]
    REVENDICATIONS1. Satellite communication system for continuous broadband access service over a land cover area (13) including at least one polar region, comprising a constellation of satellites (S1, S2, Sk) placed in circular orbit (10) around of the Earth at low or medium altitude, user terminals (17) located in the coverage area (13), at least two anchor stations (34) distributed on the surface of the Earth and capable of providing bidirectional communications with the user terminals (17) via at least one satellite moving above the coverage area, characterized in that it further comprises a network of routers (31) interconnected between them and the global Internet network (33) via dedicated local terrestrial communication channels (35), in that each docking station (34) is connected to the global internet network (33) via the router network, and in that each station d anchorage (34) comprises a device (45) for managing resources and tilts adapted to control communications switching between the satellites moving successively above the coverage area, between the anchoring stations (34), and simultaneous double switching of communications between satellites and anchor stations.
    [0002]
    2. Satellite communication system according to claim 1, characterized in that each anchor station (34), each router (31), each satellite (S1, S2, Sk) and each user terminal (17) comprises a receiver respective navigation systems (41, 68) enabling them to synchronize with each other and to synchronize all communications failovers between the satellites and / or the anchor stations.
    [0003]
    Satellite communication system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that, at each instant, the user terminals (17) and the anchor stations (34) providing the communications to the user terminals are located in an area of visibility of at least one satellite and in that the areas of two consecutive satellites (Si, S2) have an overlap area called a tilting zone (15), the switching of communications to a user terminal (17) being realized when the user terminal (17) is in the tilting zone (15).
    [0004]
    A satellite communication system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it further comprises an operations planning center (32) connected to the docking stations (34) via the router network (31), the operation planning center (32) being able to regularly receive the ephemeris of each satellite of the constellation and to draw up a general plan of all the switching of the communications to be made successively in the course of time between the satellites and / or between anchor stations.
    [0005]
    5. Satellite communication system according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that each anchoring station comprises at least two orientable directional antennas (50, 51) respectively associated with two signal transmission and reception chains. frequency multiplexed, capable of being respectively pointed to two consecutive satellites (51, S2) of the constellation and serving one or more user cells simultaneously via one or two consecutive satellites of the constellation.
    [0006]
    Satellite communication system according to claim 5, characterized in that each user terminal (17) has at least one directional antenna (61) associated with at least one transmission and reception channel (52, 54). a radiofrequency signal on bidirectional radiofrequency links established by one or two anchor stations with one or two satellites in the constellation.
    [0007]
    7. A satellite communication system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that each satellite of the constellation comprises two directional antennas (83, 84) orientable associated with radio frequency transmission and reception channels for relaying links radio frequency established by two different anchoring stations (34a, 34b) to user cells and switching means (93, 94a, 94b) capable of activating or interrupting one or more radiofrequency links established by one or the other of two docking stations with user cells.
    [0008]
    8. Satellite communication system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises at least two anchoring stations (34a, 34b) located inside or outside the coverage area ( 13).
    [0009]
    9. A continuous-use satellite communication system according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises two coverage areas (13) covering the two Arctic and Antarctic polar regions, a satellite constellation (S1, S2, ..., Sk) placed in circular orbit (10) around the Earth, on a single orbital plane inclined at an angle between 80 ° and 90 ° with respect to the terrestrial equatorial plane, the satellites being equi-distributed around the Earth at an altitude of less than or equal to 20000 km, user terminals (17) located in the two coverage areas consisting of the two polar zones at latitudes of respectively greater than + 60 ° and less than -60 °, and at least two stations anchoring (34) per polar coverage area.
    [0010]
    10. A continuous-use satellite communication system according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that it comprises a coverage area (13) including at least the two Arctic and Antarctic polar regions, a satellite constellation ( S1, S2, ..., Sk) placed in circular orbit (10) around the Earth, on several orbital planes equidistant from each other and inclined at an angle of between 80 ° and 90 ° with respect to the plane equatorial satellites, the satellites being equally distributed around the Earth at an altitude less than or equal to 20000 km, user terminals (17) located in the coverage area, and a set of anchor stations (34) distributed over the area of blanket.
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