POST-DEPLOYMENT ASSURANCE
From separation to certainty.
OrbitProof is developing an independent post-deployment assurance layer that correlates deployment, orbital and radio-frequency evidence to help establish spacecraft identity and early operational status.
Launch success is not mission success.
After separation, several different systems may hold different pieces of the truth.
The launch or deployment provider knows when a spacecraft was released. Tracking systems observe orbital objects. Ground stations detect radio signals. Mission teams receive spacecraft telemetry.
But especially after multi-satellite deployments, these observations may still need to be correlated before operators can confidently answer a simple question:
Which spacecraft is ours, where is it, and what has actually been confirmed?
SEPARATION
Deployment event and expected release state
TRACKING
Candidate orbital objects and updated trajectories
RF OBSERVATION
Signals, timing, frequency and Doppler evidence
CORRELATION
Cross-source spacecraft identity assessment
ASSURANCE
Traceable record of what is confirmed — and what is still unknown
As rideshare and multi-spacecraft missions scale, this evidence becomes increasingly fragmented across providers and systems.
One verification layer. Multiple sources of truth.
OrbitProof is being designed to combine evidence that currently lives across launch providers, tracking systems, ground networks and mission operations.
Rather than replacing those systems, OrbitProof aims to correlate their observations into a traceable assessment of spacecraft identity and early mission status.
Identify
Associate deployment and orbital evidence with the most likely spacecraft identity.
Correlate
Combine orbital information, RF observations, deployment data and mission-specific information.
Verify
Produce a traceable evidence record showing what has been independently confirmed and where uncertainty remains.
Where the available observations do not support a conclusion, the intended behaviour is to report insufficient evidence rather than infer an answer.
Evidence, not another data feed.
OrbitProof is not intended to build another global antenna or tracking network.
The concept is to integrate existing evidence sources and evaluate them together.
EVIDENCE SOURCES
- Deployment events and release conditions
- Orbital tracking and trajectory updates
- Radio-frequency observations
- Signal timing and Doppler behaviour
- Spacecraft identifiers and mission information
- Ground-station and mission-operation data
OrbitProof
CORRELATION & EVIDENCE ENGINE
The result is intended to be a machine-readable and human-readable assurance record with clear provenance for each conclusion.
What has actually been confirmed?
Different evidence supports different conclusions. OrbitProof is being designed to preserve that distinction rather than collapsing every observation into a simple “satellite online” status.
Space is industrialising. Verification must scale with it.
Satellite production is increasing, rideshare missions are deploying larger groups of spacecraft, and Europe is expanding both sovereign launch capability and commercial satellite infrastructure.
As deployment scales, the operational challenge shifts from simply getting spacecraft into orbit to reliably establishing which spacecraft is where and what has happened after separation.
OrbitProof is investigating the assurance infrastructure needed for that transition.
The initial focus is on multi-spacecraft and rideshare deployments, where several similar spacecraft may enter closely related orbits within a short period.
WHO IT IS FOR
- Satellite operators and manufacturers
- Mission and early-orbit teams
- Launch and deployment providers
- Ground-segment companies
- Tracking and orbital data providers
Help define the assurance layer after launch.
We are looking for mission teams willing to share operational insight, historical mission data or participate in future shadow-pilot testing.
WHERE WE ARE
OrbitProof is currently validating the operational and commercial problem while developing its first technical demonstrator.
We are looking to speak with satellite operators, manufacturers, mission teams, launch and deployment providers, ground-segment companies and tracking providers.
TECHNICAL FOCUS
Our current technical focus is a correlation engine combining deployment information, orbital observations and RF evidence into a traceable spacecraft-identity assessment.
Get in touch.
Tell us about your mission, deployment workflow or early-orbit operations.