Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus to package and electrically connect a microdisplay that includes a cavity package design. This cavity package design improves the packaging of the microdisplay by using a low number of parts, less processing, and is independent of the customer's interconnect. Structurally, the invention is a unified part, forming a cavity for insertion of a microdisplay cell. Additionally, the cavity package incorporates a variety of test features for ease of testing. Also, the cavity package is a small size and includes multiple mounting options allowing flexibility to customer changes and multiple configurations.

Abstract: A user terminal (110) includes a rotating electronically steerable antenna system (210) which combines coarse mechanical beam steering with fine electronic beam steering to provide full hemispherical coverage and enable hand-offs in a satellite communication system. The antenna system (210) comprises at least one antenna unit (and preferably two antenna units) including a mechanically rotatable base (330), an antenna holder (320) coupled to the mechanically rotatable base, and two electronically steerable antenna subunit (310) mounted on the antenna holder. Antenna system (210) also includes an antenna unit controller (260) adapted to control rotation of the mechanically rotatable base (330).