Beyond Line-of-Sight: The Strategic Advantage of Temporal Graph Routing

SAN DIEGO, CA – In traditional terrestrial networking, nodes are static; a router in New York does not move relative to a router in London. In the space domain, however, the network topology changes every millisecond. Satellites rise, set, and cross planes at 17,000 mph.

Attempting to route data through this chaotic environment using static "snapshots" often leads to dropped packets and failed handovers. Taurus Space addresses this challenge with our new Temporal Graph Routing engine.

Solving for Time, Not Just Distance

Our updated routing engine no longer sees the network as a static geometry. Instead, it constructs a time-expanded graph that predicts the position and availability of every node over the duration of the requested service.

When an operator provisions a service flow, the system doesn't just ask, "Is the satellite visible now?" It asks, "Will this path remain stable for the next 10 minutes?" If a satellite is predicted to dip below the horizon or enter a gimbal lock in 30 seconds, the Temporal Graph rejects it as a primary node, favoring a stable path even if the initial latency is slightly higher.

Predictive Resilience

This "Make-Before-Break" philosophy is now baked into the mathematics of our solver. By looking ahead, the system can orchestrate seamless handovers before the link degrades. This provides the warfighter with a "Resilient Route"—a connectivity path that self-heals and adapts to orbital mechanics proactively, rather than reacting to signal loss after it happens.