Aalyria, the Google spinoff that emerged from stealth in September 2022, made its SATELLITE 2023 debut demonstrating Spacetime, its network orchestration software, hours after announcing a partnership with Rivada Space Networks to manage its planned 600-satellite LEO constellation.
CTO Brian Barritt described Spacetime as “a new approach to software defined networking” that optimizes antenna link scheduling, traffic routing, and spectrum resources across ground stations, satellites, aircraft, ships, and urban meshes — precomputing energy and interference for every possible connectivity choice.
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Barritt demonstrated how Spacetime handles failures: if a submarine fiber is cut or a satellite is destroyed, the platform immediately recalculates all handovers, radio resource management, and routing across the network. “You can see the connectivity evolve to adapt links because of the loss of that satellite.”
Spacetime is designed with military and government buyers in mind. Barritt said the U.S. government increasingly wants to “dynamically transact capacity in an exchange-like model” — but that transition requires common APIs and open Layer 3 standards: “We’re not going to get there with vertically integrated, proprietary systems even with the advantage of speed.”
CEO Chris Taylor also teased Tightbeam, Aalyria’s second flagship product, as a forthcoming presentation. VS
