Experiments in orbital networking.
What actually happens when you route packets through a constellation moving at 17,000 mph, and what assumptions from forty years of terrestrial networking quietly stop being true.
From Orbital Math to Carrier Events
Post #002 defined the building blocks. This post is about what happens when you turn them on and the network starts moving. Specifically, how orbital mechanics become the link up, link down, and latency shift events that your routing protocol actually sees.
Addressing the Geometry Problem: Constellations in NodalArc
In terrestrial networking, you design the topology, generally constrained by physical locations that make sense for the business. You choose where routers go, how they connect, and what the link characteristics look like...
The Terrestrial Assumption Problem
Every routing protocol we have was designed for a network that stays put. Links fail occasionally, but the topology is fundamentally stable. In low Earth orbit, the topology is never stable. So what actually breaks, what doesn't, and does anyone actually know for certain?