Orbital Gate

Software

One schedule for every station

Software that plans time and frequencies across a network of ground stations, hands passes from station to station, and keeps data synchronised between sites under the owner's policies.

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Render of a Mobile Ground Station at night beside a ground-mounted dish and a lit building.
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Where networks differ

The four layers that decide how a network performs

Most ground-station work is well understood: pointing and tracking, RF and signal processing, TT&C and data delivery. Networks differ in four places, and that is where this software focuses.

  • Scheduling and planning

    • Contact booking by portal and API
    • Conflict detection across antennas and RF chains
    • Priority and pre-emption
    • Recurring and automatic contacts
    • The right station for each pass, with handover between stations
    • Rescheduling on failure or weather

  • Network operations

    • Orchestration and failover across sites
    • Proof of pass and contact reports
    • Service-level monitoring

  • The commercial layer

    • Per-contact or per-minute usage
    • Customers kept apart from one another on shared stations

  • Federation

    • Third-party stations join the same network
    • Open interfaces

Building blocks

From the station to the operator

How data moves through an Orbital Gate networkThree stations each run connectors that parse the downlink. A gateway authenticates and routes the data to the control hub and to the operator's systems, and sync shares data between sites under policies.Station 1connectorsStation 2connectorsStation 3connectorssyncsyncGatewayroutes · authenticatesControl hubmission control · provisioningOperator systemsyour mission and data
Connectors
At each station, connectors parse the downlink: CCSDS, AX.25 and KISS.
Gateway
Routes and authenticates traffic, including through Orbital Passport.
Sync
Shares data from site to site under policies.
Control hub
The mission-control dashboard for the whole network, where stations and users are provisioned.

Scheduling

A day across the network

Contacts planned across four stations, one pass handed from station to station, and a continuous GEO link alongside.

Illustrative pass timeline across four stationsOver 24 hours, three stations take short contacts with low-earth-orbit satellites, one pass is handed from station 1 to station 2, and station 4 holds a continuous geostationary link.00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00Station 1Station 2Station 3Station 4TT&C contactDownlink contactGEO linkHandover

Illustrative: not real passes and not to scale.

Early access to the software

Station operators, satellite operators and agencies can shape the first release.

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