Orbital atmospheric control · Now in public trial

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1,212 satellites. One ledger. Your weather, delivered to the square kilometre.

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Canopy status · live
Satellites in position
1,212/1,212
Sky-cells allocated today
4,118,902
Fulfilment rate
100.00%
  • 190+Deployments across 190+ sectors
  • 0Unscheduled sunsets
  • 99.998%Ledger uptime
  • 11 minAverage beam dwell

Figures cover the trailing twelve months of Ledger operations and are attested by the Office of Ledger Integrity.

Procedure

How it works

Four steps, one confirmation. From request to delivered conditions in under ten seconds of your attention.

  1. A map with a targeting reticle locked onto a twelve kilometre sky-cell labelled Sector 0417-B.

    Select sector

    Place the reticle anywhere on Earth. The Canopy resolves your request to a single one-square-kilometre sky-cell, addressed by coordinate and held in the Atmospheric Allocation Ledger.

  2. A clock face beside a timeline of four six-hour blocks, with the second block highlighted as held.

    Reserve window

    Choose one of four six-hour blocks. Each sky-cell can hold exactly one reservation per block, so the Ledger checks for conflicts before it promises you anything.

  3. A ground station sends an uplink beam to a Stratoweaver satellite overhead, carrying the reservation payload.

    Uplink

    One of five ground stations, each named for a bird, transmits your reservation to three Stratoweaver satellites. Handshake completes in under a second. Nobody has ever had to wait for a bird.

  4. Three satellites converge beams on a cloud deck as it forms over the target sector, with rain falling beneath.

    Delivery

    Three beams converge. The cloud deck is compiled in place and locked for the full window. You receive a numbered ticket stamped by the Ledger. Fulfilment confidence: 100%.

Constellation

The Canopy

1,212 Stratoweaver-class satellites in three coordinated shells. Every point on the surface passes beneath at least three of them at all times, which is the minimum required for triangulation and the reason we chose the number.

Polar view of Earth surrounded by three satellite shells: Shell A at 550 kilometres and 53 degrees, Shell B at 1,110 kilometres and 70 degrees, and Shell C at 1,325 kilometres and 97.6 degrees, sun-synchronous. A ground station links to the lowest shell.
Orbital architecture of the Canopy, polar projection. Not to scale, in the sense that scale would not fit.
Canopy technical specification
Constellation1,212 satellites, hulls LTW-0001 to LTW-1212
Shell A550 km · 53° inclination
Shell B1,110 km · 70° inclination
Shell C1,325 km · 97.6° sun-synchronous
Cell resolution1 km² per sky-cell
Allocation window6 hours · four blocks per day
Beam dwell11 min average
Ground segmentLapwing-4, Osprey-2, Plover-7, Harrier-3, Shrike-9
Ledger fulfilment100.00%

Technology

Four systems. One sky.

Everything the Canopy does is the product of four cooperating systems, each developed in-house and none available for inspection.

Cross-section of the atmosphere: a satellite beam passes through a curved ionospheric lens, bends, and converges on a focal point inside a cloud nucleation zone.

Coherent Nucleation Beam

CNB

A collimated beam of coherent radiation, bent by Ionospheric Lensing onto a nucleation zone 3.2 kilometres above the surface. Water vapour that was previously undecided commits to becoming cloud in roughly forty seconds.

Exploded view of a Stratoweaver satellite showing the Thermal Mirror Sails, the central bus, the Barometric Phase Array, the Coherent Nucleation Emitter and four Coriolis Trim thrusters.

Barometric Phase Array

BPA

Each Stratoweaver carries a 4,096-element array. Operating in concert across three hulls, the arrays perform Isobar Sculpting, shaping pressure gradients to a tolerance of 0.1 hectopascal. Thermal Mirror Sails and Coriolis Trim handle the rest.

Three satellites converge beams on a forming cloud deck above a sector, with rain falling beneath it.

Cloud Deck Compiler

CDC

Translates a requested condition into a deck: a layered schedule of cloud base, thickness, droplet spectrum and onset time. Compilation completes in under nine seconds. Linking is slower, which is why every reservation is a six-hour window.

A hexagonal grid of sky-cells. Some cells are shaded as allocated, some are marked held, and the remainder are available inventory.

The Ledger

AAL

The Atmospheric Allocation Ledger holds one reservation per sky-cell per six-hour block. Never two. It is the reason the Canopy can promise what it promises, and the reason entries, once made, are final under Ledger Protocol 7.

Catalogue

Weather catalogue

Nineteen conditions, each with a protocol designation. Standard allocations are drawn from the Ledger's general inventory. Signature Events are reserved for members.

Standard allocations 11 conditions

    Signature Events (Members) 8 conditions

      Our story

      Ten years of managing the sky

      1. First cloud compiled

        Atmospheric Control Systems, Inc. is incorporated in a rented hangar. Over a test range, a single cloud forty metres wide is compiled, held for eleven minutes and formally approved.

      2. Sustained rainfall

        The Coherent Nucleation Beam produces continuous rain over a designated field. The field's owner, who was present, asks whether it can be stopped. It can. This becomes a founding requirement.

      3. Isobar Sculpting

        The first Barometric Phase Array holds a pressure gradient to within 0.1 hectopascal for six hours. The six-hour allocation window is adopted as the company's unit of account.

      4. Shells A and B commissioned

        Stratoweaver hulls LTW-0001 through LTW-0740 enter service at 550 and 1,110 kilometres. Coverage becomes continuous over every inhabited latitude.

      5. The Canopy fully deployed

        Shell C reaches its sun-synchronous orbit. Hull LTW-1212 completes handshake. The constellation stands at 1,212 of 1,212 satellites in position, a figure that has not changed since.

      6. The Ledger launched

        The Atmospheric Allocation Ledger goes live to end weather disputes between neighbours. One sky-cell, one block, one reservation. There have been no disputes since.

      7. Public trial opens

        For the first time, anyone may reserve a sky-cell from residual Ledger inventory, with no signup. Demand is described internally as "atmospheric".

      Leadership

      The people behind the Canopy

      • Dr. Ingrid Solvang-Achebe

        Founder & Chief Atmospheric Officer

        Founded Atmospheric Control Systems after a wedding was rained on in 2014, and has not permitted a recurrence.

      • Tomasz Okafor-Lindqvist

        VP Orbital Operations

        Runs the Canopy from a windowless operations room with excellent air conditioning. Reports no need to look outside.

      • Dr. Priya Castellanos-Moore

        Head of Precipitation Engineering

        Holds the record for both the smallest deliberate raindrop and the largest scheduled downpour, and declines to rank them.

      • Marguerite Oyelaran-Vance

        General Counsel, Airspace & Allocation

        Drafted Ledger Protocol 7, which holds that a reservation, once made, is made. It has not yet been contested successfully.

      • Kenji Almeida-Rourke

        Director of Ledger Integrity

        Audits the 100.00% fulfilment rate every morning. The figure has never moved, which he considers the point.

      • Dr. Aurelio Fenwick-Nakashima

        Chief Scientist, Ionospheric Lensing

        Has observed the aurora from both hemispheres and maintains that it could be greener. Is working on it.

      Client record

      Delivered, as promised

      It rained on everyone else's picnic. Not ours.

      Daniela R., Porto

      We reserved a dry Saturday for the regatta. It was a dry Saturday. I have questions about how, but no complaints.

      Oluwaseun A., Lagos

      The Ledger said clear skies and the sky was clear. I have stopped checking anything else.

      Hiroshi K., Osaka

      Membership

      Choose your tier

      Three tiers of Canopy membership, from standard allocations anywhere on Earth to national-scale scheduling.

      Tier I

      Stratus

      $1,450 / mo

      • Standard weather, anywhere on Earth
      • Reservations up to 10 years ahead
      • Priority Ledger position
      Tier II

      Cumulonimbus

      $9,800 / mo

      • Everything in Stratus
      • Signature Events, including tornado and aurora
      • Dedicated Ledger liaison
      Tier III

      Sovereign

      By invitation

      • Hurricanes, named and tracked
      • National-scale scheduling
      • Exclusive sky-cell holds

      Compare all tiers

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