Electrical engineering

Physics

Business

Aerospace engineering

Topology (electrical circuits)

Service (business)

Computer network

Constellation

Latency (audio)

Distributed computing

Astronomy

The Internet

World Wide Web

Engineering

Marketing

Satellite

Network topology

Satellite constellation

Computer science

Low latency (capital markets)

Internet topology

Telecommunications

Upstart space companies are actively developing massive constellations of low-flying satellites to provide global Internet service. We examine the problem of designing the inter-satellite network for low latency and high capacity. We posit that the high density of these new constellations and the high-velocity nature of such systems render traditional approaches for network design ineffective, motivating new methods specialized for this problem setting.

Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour