1. A satellite platform, comprising: a plurality of satellite devices positioned in orbit and having specialized roles defined at least by presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements that vary among the plurality of satellite devices; and individual ones of the plurality of satellite devices configured to: maintain attribute scoring metrics that rate one or more satellite devices in competency among at least a portion of the specialized roles; identify tasks to be serviced using one or more of the specialized roles; based at least in part on the attribute scoring metrics, determine one or more target satellite devices that satisfy the one or more of the specialized roles to handle the tasks; and transfer at least task instructions for delivery to the one or more target satellite devices for performing the tasks using at least one among the presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements associated with the one or more of the specialized roles.