Explore the scenario

Move the sliders. The numbers below recompute live. Charts and 3D orbit viz come in US11 + US13.

Satellites 120 sats 0 10,000Orbit altitude 600 km 200 35,786Compute per satellite 100 Tflops 0 1,000Ground stations 5 stations 0 100Downlink (per sat) 1 Gbps 0.1 10Uplink (per sat) 0.1 Gbps 0 1

Total compute 12,000 Tflops

Aggregate bandwidth 12 Tbps

Coverage 3.6 h/day

Round-trip latency 4 ms

Annual cost (rough) $840 M / year

Data throughput 8.1 TB /day down 810 GB/day up · LEO

Orbit visualisation

The amber ring shows your chosen altitude. Sky rings show the 8 reference orbits. Drag the altitude slider to see the orbit change.

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Ground stations 0 / 24 sites · 0 / 8 networks

Round-trip latency to the 8 reference orbits

The bar nearest your altitude slider is highlighted amber. Drag the altitude slider above to see the chart update live.

LEO

4 ms

MEO

50 ms

GEO

600 ms

Lunar surface

2.56 s

Lunar orbit

2.56 s

10.00 s

16.7 min

3D orbit visualisation ships in US13.

Want the underlying physics and link-budget math? See Satellite communication & internet and Satellite hardware on the tech page.