Described herein are techniques for leveraging ground station computing devices for performing route planning calculations to be used in a LEO satellite network for traffic routing. Such techniques may comprise receiving, at a ground station computing device, a request to generate routing information for a satellite node over a period of time, determining, by the ground station computing device, a number of communication connections associated with at least one destination node, each communication connection of the number of communication connections associated with a portion of the period of time, selecting, by the ground station computing device, one or more communication connection of the number of communication connections to cover the period of time, populating, by the ground station computing device, the routing information with an indication of the selected at least one communication connection, and providing the routing information to the satellite node.