METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A BIDIRECTIONAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SESSION AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM

Various arrangements for establishing a bidirectional satellite communication session are presented. Initialization data may be accessed to tune an antenna to a geosynchronous satellite, wherein the initialization data is stored locally by the access node. The initialization data may be used to point and tune the antenna to the geosynchronous satellite. Ephemeris data may be received from the geosynchronous satellite. The ephemeris data may be indicative of orbital locations of satellites that are part of a non-geosynchronous satellite constellation. The ephemeris data may be used to point and tune the antenna to a satellite of the non-geosynchronous satellite constellation. The bidirectional satellite communication session may then be established with the satellite of the non-geosynchronous satellite constellation.