FIELD: satellite communication.
SUBSTANCE: said technical result is achieved by the fact that each satellite in a group can have one or more dynamically configured routes, and switching and/or formation of the beam pattern can be used to configure each route as a forward channel route or a reverse channel route in each of the number of time intervals according to the route configuration scheme; wherein at least some of the routes can additionally be selectively configured in each time interval with possibility to transfer "communication line between Earth and satellite" traffic to and/or from ground terminals and "communication between satellites" traffic on and/or from one or several other satellites of grouping.
EFFECT: technical result is to facilitate flexible throughput of a forward channel and a reverse channel in a satellite communication system.
21 cl, 21 dwg, 1 tbl
