Engineering
How we build ConstellationOS, written by the people who build it. Not marketing — the design decisions, failure modes, and operational lessons behind a platform that runs satellite fleets.
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Technical articles & deep dives
Deep DiveWhy every prediction includes calibrated uncertaintyPoint forecasts are trivia. Schedulers need envelopes — here is how we calibrate p10/p90 against live residuals and gate coverage before anything ships.
Read →Deep DivePhysics-informed machine learning for satellite operationsResidual learning against a closed-form link budget: how our models are structurally incapable of contradicting physics.
Read →ArchitectureBuilding a resilient telemetry ingestion pipelineSynchronous durability, idempotent writes, and backpressure across heterogeneous fleet dialects.
In reviewDeep DiveHandling billions of telemetry points efficientlyWindowing, downsampling, and coverage gating at fleet scale without lying to the models downstream.
In reviewArchitectureDesigning multi-tenant satellite infrastructureIsolation as architecture: identity pinning, per-tenant keys and stores, and no shared fate.
In reviewArchitectureBuilding deterministic replay systemsFixed timesteps, seeded randomness, and ordered evaluation — why bit-reproducibility is an operational feature.
In reviewDeep DiveOptimizing gateway placement at continental scaleCoverage, weather decorrelation, and demand geography as one optimization surface.
In reviewDeep DiveConformal prediction for communication networksDistribution-free coverage guarantees, regime conditioning, and what breaks when you pool calibration.
In reviewDeep DiveLessons learned operating heterogeneous satellite fleetsField notes from normalizing mixed buses, radios, and provider APIs into one operational picture.
In reviewArchitectureArchitecting AI agents for autonomous mission operationsGrounding, tool contracts, and policy envelopes — how an agent earns command authority.
In reviewPieces marked “in review” are in the publishing pipeline — engineering writing here goes through the same review gates as engineering work.