ORBITALLow-Earth orbit computing

Space segment

Twenty-four nodes.
Three planes. One system.

The constellation propagates in real time. Select any node to read its telemetry, illumination status, and active links to the ground segment.

24 nodes · 3 planes — —
ECU-1 · equatorial POL-1 · polar SSO-1 · Sun-synchronous
Three ground-station dish antennas on a volcanic plateau beneath the Milky Way.
Quito Station · 4,180 mZero latitude: every equatorial node passes overhead fifteen times a day.
Antennas at the Quito ground station.

Ground segment

Ecuador is in the best place on the planet.

A station at zero latitude sees every node in an equatorial orbit pass overhead on each revolution. At 4,180 meters, above the atmosphere's humid layer, the terrestrial optical link loses an order of magnitude less signal.

Quito · ECU
0.18° S · 4,180 m
Singapore · SGP
1.35° N · sea level
Nairobi · KEN
1.29° S · 1,795 m
Svalbard · NOR
78.22° N · polar

Latency

Closer from above.

Choose a city. We compare the optical link to the nearest orbital plane against the real terrestrial fiber route to the closest conventional data center.

Origin

11ms · round trip
ORBITAL 11 ms
Terrestrial fiber 96 ms

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