Multi-orbit satellite data center
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsStephen T. Palermo, Valerie J. Parker, Udayan Mukherjee
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Abstract
Various approaches for the deployment and coordination of network operation processing, compute processing, and inter-satellite communication coordination, within one or multiple satellite non-terrestrial networks, are discussed. Among other examples, a data center located at one or more satellites operating in a middle Earth orbit (MEO) plane, geosynchronous orbit (GEO) plane, or high-Earth elliptical orbit (HEO) plane, may be used to provide network and data processing operations for a low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.
Claims20
A computing system, comprising:
- processing circuitry;
- and
- a memory device including instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the processing circuitry to perform operations that:
- obtain, from a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, network routing data and telemetry data associated with network communication paths in the LEO satellite constellation, the LEO satellite constellation comprising a plurality of satellite vehicles in orbit that communicate via a plurality of inter-satellite links;
- identify a condition in the telemetry data to change control of the network communication paths of the LEO satellite constellation, the condition relating to usage of the network communication paths as indicated in the network routing data;
- and
- communicate at least one command to a non-terrestrial network operations center (NOC) that causes the non-terrestrial NOC to control the network communication paths of the LEO satellite constellation, the non-terrestrial NOC located at another satellite vehicle in orbit that is located outside the LEO satellite constellation.
A method for configuring satellite networking operations, performed by processing circuitry of a computing device, the method comprising:
- obtaining, from a low-carth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, network routing data and telemetry data associated with network communication paths in the LEO satellite constellation, the LEO satellite constellation comprising a plurality of satellite vehicles in orbit that communicate via a plurality of inter-satellite links;
- identifying a condition in the telemetry data to change control of the network communication paths of the LEO satellite constellation, the condition relating to usage of the network communication paths as indicated in the network routing data;
- and
- communicating at least one command to a non-terrestrial network operations center (NOC) that causes the non-terrestrial NOC to control the network communication paths of the LEO satellite constellation, the non-terrestrial NOC located at another satellite vehicle in orbit that is located outside the LEO satellite constellation.
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