Event-driven orchestration of workloads requiring satellite computing resources

A computer system for orchestrating event-driven computing workloads in a satellite environment, the computer system comprising:

• one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, and one or more computer-readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more computer-readable memories, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive a workload and a request for satellite computing resources to deploy the workload from a client, wherein the workload corresponds to an event, and wherein the request includes requirements for a computing capability to complete the workload;
• program instructions to obtain satellite data for a plurality of satellites, wherein the satellite data includes computing capabilities and current statuses of the plurality of satellites;
• program instructions to predict, based on the current statuses, locations and availabilities of the plurality of satellites during the event;
• program instructions to identify a relevant satellite based on the request in the plurality of satellites by traversing a decision tree having a first set of branches based on the computing capabilities and subsequent sets of branches based on parameters comprising the locations and availabilities;
• program instructions to identify ground stations capable of communicating with the relevant satellite;
• program instructions to schedule a time for the workload to be deployed to the relevant satellite;
• program instructions to predict a location of the relevant satellite at the scheduled time;
• program instructions to select, based on the predicted location, a ground station from the identified ground stations;
• program instructions to deploy the workload to the selected ground station at the scheduled time;
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• program instructions to determine, based on data from monitoring the relevant satellite and the selected ground station, whether to download results of processing the workload to the selected ground station.

A computer program product for orchestrating event-driven computing workloads in a satellite environment, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive a workload and a request for satellite computing resources to deploy the workload from a client, wherein the workload corresponds to an event, and wherein the request includes requirements for a computing capability to complete the workload;
• program instructions to obtain satellite data for a plurality of satellites, wherein the satellite data includes computing capabilities and current statuses of the plurality of satellites;
• program instructions to predict, based on the current statuses, locations and availabilities of the plurality of satellites during the event;
• program instructions to identify a relevant satellite based on the request in the plurality of satellites by traversing a decision tree having a first set of branches based on the computing capabilities and subsequent sets of branches based on parameters comprising the locations and availabilities;
• program instructions to identify ground stations capable of communicating with the relevant satellite;
• program instructions to schedule a time for the workload to be deployed to the relevant satellite;
• program instructions to predict a location of the relevant satellite at the scheduled time;
• program instructions to select, based on the predicted location, a ground station from the identified ground stations;
• and
• program instructions to deploy the workload to a ground station associated with the relevant satellite.