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Project Brief: Extend Orbitport, Space Computer’s gateway between Earth and orbital infrastructure by expanding and integrating additional ground station providers, improving platform capabilities and exploring partnerships with future ground station partners

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Key Facts

• Team size: 1-2 students
• Workplace: Remote
• Hours: 15-20/week
• Timeline: 6 months

Project Summary

Orbitport abstracts the complexity of satellite communication into a developer-friendly API, integrating ground station providers.

This project focuses on:

• Expanding network reach (more providers)
• building new platform features (monitoring and routing)
• supporting ecosystem partnerships

Project Outcome: a more scalable, robust, developer-centric space infrastructure platform.

Objectives

1. Network Expansion

• integrate additional ground station providers (Celestial Integration Plugins)
• improve redundancy and global coverage
• ensure compatibility across communication networks

2. Platform Development

• Build new features:
  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Improved routing logic
  • Documentation tooling