suitable earth based ad hoc network is described in u s patent application ser no 11 426 417 attorney docket no 05 0278 entitled u201c neural network based mobility management for mobile ad hoc radio networks u201d u s patent application ser no 11 426 419 attorney docket no 05 1032 entitled u201c neural network based node mobility and network connectivity predictions for mobile ad hoc radio network u201d u s patent application ser no 11 426 425 attorney docket no 05 1033 entitled u201c neural network based mobility management for self partition detection and identification of mobile ad hoc radio networks u201d and u s patent application ser no 11 426 428 attorney docket no 05 1034 entitled u201c neural network based mobility management for healing mobile ad hoc radio networks u201d all four filed jun 26 2006 assigned to the assignee of the present application and incorporated herein by reference the planet stationary satellites 112 1 112 2 112 3 112 4 may be located at lagrangian points l 4 or l 5 in the interplanetary backbone network 102 however due to relative movement e g orbital motion links to some nodes 110 112 1 112 2 112 3 112 4 are continually changing with most links occurring only at intermittent windows preferably the network is designed to minimize constraints to communications external to the backbone 102 further communications is optimized in spite of intermittent availability from limited and or intermittent connectivity that in more extreme cases may severely limit communications with remote nodes so by analyzing network performance to identify specific needs e g identifying node and or link bottlenecks ann nodes may be selected as described in u s patent application ser no 11 ______ attorney docket no 07 0107 entitled u201c method.