Aalyria’s
Spacetime will orchestrate network for Rivada
Space Networks’ LEO Satellite Constellation
March 13, 2023
Aalyria which launched late
last year after acquiring key networking and
communications technology developed over decades
within Alphabet, the parent company of Google –
and Rivada Space Networks (RSN) have entered
into an agreement to use Aalyria’s Spacetime
platform to orchestrate the network for Rivada’s
planned LEO constellation.
Rivada’s constellation will
consist of 600 satellites interconnected via
laser links. The solution will offer integrated
core and edge connectivity over a single, global
private network in space. The first satellite
launch is set for 2025, with global service
starting in 2026.
Aalyria’s Spacetime
solution offers Rivada's unique architecture an
advantage for finding the most robust and
reliable means of communications between any two
user terminals in the world through real-time
analysis of millions of possible paths.
Spacetime is an advanced
software platform designed for orchestrating and
managing networks of satellites, ground
stations, aircraft, ships, urban meshes, and
more. Spacetime optimizes and continually
evolves the antenna link scheduling, network
traffic routing, and spectrum resources --
responding in real time to changing network
requirements. Spacetime operates networks across
land, sea, air, and space, at any altitude or
orbit type, supports all radio frequency bands
and optical wavelengths, and is designed for
interoperability with legacy, hybrid space, 5G
NTN and FutureG network architectures.
Spacetime is unique in that
it is asset and domain agnostic, meaning it can
orchestrate networks across nearly anything that
is connectivity-equipped on Earth or in Space.
Spacetime was used internally at Google and
Alphabet for nearly a decade, and most recently
powered the communications network for Project
Loon’s various deployments in Peru, Puerto Rico,
and Kenya. The technology already has millions
of flight hours orchestrating and managing
airborne communications systems around the
world. Spacetime is also being used by the
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to help develop
secure internet connectivity throughout the
space domain for both private and public sector
customers.
Rivada’s constellation will
offer access to a secure satellite network with
pole-to-pole reach, offering end-to-end
latencies similar to or better than terrestrial
fiber. The Rivada network combines
inter-satellite links with advanced onboard data
routers creating an optical backbone in space to
deliver ultra-secure and highly reliable global
connectivity for business operations in the
telecom, enterprise, maritime, energy and
government services markets.
“Rivada’s first-of-its-kind
constellation is exactly the type of next
generation connectivity system Spacetime was
designed to advance,” said Chris Taylor, CEO of
Aalyria. “We built Spacetime to dynamically
route communications across anything that flies
or moves, on Earth or in space, to expand
connectivity to people, places, and things that
were previously thought unconnectable. We’re
excited to add Rivada to our roster of
world-class partners and look forward to working
with them in the coming years.”
Clemens Kaiser, Chief
Program Officer at RSN commented: "With our
manufacturing and launch services contracts in
place we are now moving at full speed on
defining the optimal systems solutions to
deliver our ground-breaking constellation. We
are delighted to be integrating Aalyria’s
Spacetime solution and look forward to
demonstrating that our fully meshed laser space
network, regenerative payload and beam hopping
solution can be very efficiently orchestrated to
provide unparalleled service performance for our
customers."
Aalyria launched as an independent company
in September 2022 after acquiring key
technologies developed over nearly a decade at
Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The
company is working to revolutionize
communications by enabling the orchestration and
management of hyper-fast, ultra-secure, and
highly complex communications networks that span
land, sea, air, and space |