Global continuous coverage
Swarm’s satellites cover the entire planet as the Earth rotates underneath their orbital planes. Once we have launched our full constellation, Swarm will have at least 3 satellites covering every point on Earth at all times.
Swarm has partnered with LeoLabs to track our satellites. Watch them live and stay tuned as we deploy 150 satellites in the next year.

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How our satellites are different
Vertical integration

Swarm designs and builds all the hardware, software, and protocols for our satellites and user modems. Controlling the manufacturing chain end to end allows us to maintain the highest quality service and devices.
Network architecture

Customer to Satellite
Data flows from the customer device to a Swarm Tile, then to a Swarm satellite using our proprietary protocol which ensures all devices can send their messages in a timely manner. Every hop-level transmission is acknowledged. Each Tile can store 2000 unsent user messages.
Satellite to Ground Station
The Swarm network is a store-and-forward system, and the satellites can store 4000 messages. Satellites transmit the customer messages to Swarm ground stations. As there is usually a station in view, messages can be sent promptly. Each transmission is acknowledged by the ground station for confirmation of receipt.
Ground Station to Customer
Messages are immediately relayed from the Swarm ground stations to the Swarm backend servers through a secure Internet connection. They are then accessible to customers via various access methods, including RESTful API or webhook. The Swarm network is two-way with optional end-to-end AES256-GCM encryption.
