Orbital Edge Offloading on Mega-LEO Satellite Constellations for Equal Access to Computing

Mega-LEO satellite constellations are becoming a concrete reality. Companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, and OneWeb have already started launching hundreds of LEO satellites turning their services on. Even if the aim is just, for now, to offer worldwide Internet access equality, deployment proves feasibility suggests usefulness further purposes. In this article, we shed some light on possible integration in-network computing paradigm in mega-LEO constellations. Terrestrial and/or non-terrestrial nodes can benefit from offloading an orbital edge (OE) platform reachable through constellation, exploiting its fast distributed computational capability. context, preliminary analysis highlights that task strategies lead performance improvements open up novel challenges design setup OE platforms.