SATELLITE COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTER

The present invention relates to an earth station receiver device (3) arranged for receiving a set of data transmitted in super-frames by an earth station transmitter device of a satellite communication system, whereby at least one of said super-frames contains less than 415 pilot segments, said pilot segments obtained by inserting a pilot field of 36 super-frame pilot symbols type A as defined in DVB-S2X in between each pair of consecutive blocks of 16 capacity units, said capacity units each 90 symbols long and obtained by converting a super-frame preamble comprising a start of super-frame, SOSF, and a super-frame format indicator, SFFI, and a plurality of physical layer frames whereby a first subset of capacity units corresponding to said super-frame preamble is prepended to a second subset of capacity units corresponding to the plurality of physical layer frames. The earth station receiver device comprises detection means arranged to check after each detected pilot field whether or not there is a SOSF indication.