A satellite telecommunication system featuring multi-beam coverage and dynamically controlled allocation of the satellite transmission capacity

Claim 1

1) A satellite telecommunications system featuring multi-beam coverage and dynamically controlled allocation of satellite transmission capacity, of the type wherein a number of earth stations are linked to a satellite on board which regeneration of the earth-to-satellite signal is brought about: characterised in that it features a modular beam switching pattern and utilises asynchronous type protocol procedures in allocation of the satellite transmission capacity between the various earth stations, both for bursts exchanged between earth traffic stations and master station carrying telephone conversations and video conferences, wherein recognition and recovery of bursts transmitted by a given DSI station can be effected by the DSI receiving station with control retained by the same DSI transmitting station, which enables attachment of a preamble to such bursts, and for remote control of an on-board switching matrix (2) which in turn controls the overall system; and in that the system in its entirety is controlled by microprocessors of requisite capacity.