US Patent 11973574 Systems and methods for private communications networks

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for private communications networks. In various embodiments, a communication system in accordance with the disclosed technology includes a private communications network that has earth stations configured to communicate with a multi-spot beam satellite. The earth stations are communicatively unreachable by communication sources that are remote from the earth stations and that are outside the private communications network, and the earth stations are distributed across geographies covered by different spot beams of the multi-spot beam satellite.