Orbit Logic

Orbit Logic is a Greenbelt, Maryland software company founded in 2000 specializing in satellite mission planning, scheduling, and operations tools. The company's STK-based and proprietary scheduling algorithms handle the complex combinatorial optimization problem of assigning imaging requests, communication windows, and maneuver opportunities across satellite fleets — a computationally hard problem that grows exponentially with constellation size. Orbit Logic's customers include NASA (Hubble Space Telescope scheduling has used Orbit Logic tools), NOAA, US government agencies, and commercial satellite operators.

Products include the Command and Control Web Services (CCWS) framework and specialized schedulers for Earth observation, communication, and relay satellites. As constellations grow to hundreds or thousands of satellites, automated scheduling software like Orbit Logic's becomes essential infrastructure — human operators cannot manually optimize contact windows for large fleets.