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Pre-Launch · Filing seed · Series A — Q4 2026

did:orbit Registry · The spine

One identity for every asset in orbit.

The W3C DID method extension that lets ORCH, Terminal, Market, and Attest address the same spacecraft, slot, ground station, spectrum filing, and counterparty. Append-only, Merkle-anchored, and reconciled against ITU SNS and FCC IBFS nightly.
Method specificationRegister your first DID
Method
did:orbit
Standard
W3C DID v1.0
Log
Trillian · append-only
Anchoring
Ethereum L1 + Bitcoin

Namespace

A single grammar for every orbital entity.

Every asset, operator, ground station, filing, and payload has a canonical DID. Once minted, it is immutable; state changes are new entries with a supersedes edge.
did:orbit
did:orbit:sat:starsync-fleet-alpha:norad-52219
did:orbit:station:ksat-svalbard:gs-09
did:orbit:operator:planet-labs:legal-entity-us
did:orbit:payload:nasa-ccvz:aeris-2026-04-21
did:orbit:filing:itu-sns:doc-a-b-c-xyz-rev-2

Log mechanics

Append-only. Provably so.

HEADdid:orbitAPPEND-ONLY TRANSPARENCY LOGSEQ 214,509 · MERKLE 0x3fa8c0…9b2e · ANCHORED 00:57:41 AGO

Registry parameters

Backend
Trillian (Google CT code)
Hash
SHA-256; RFC 6962 Merkle
Storage
CockroachDB spanner-class
Anchor — Ethereum
Every 1,024 entries · L1 calldata
Anchor — Bitcoin
Hourly · OP_RETURN
Inclusion proof
O(log n) · client-side verifiable
Consistency proof
Between any two historical roots
Retention
Permanent · no deletion

What a DID carries

Identity, rights, and facts \u2014 separately addressable.

  • 01

    Identity document

    Canonical JSON + JWS, signed by the subject operator. Discoverable via did:orbit:<subject>/.well-known/did.json.
  • 02

    Rights bundle

    Spectrum filings, orbit slots, licence references. Each right is a separate DID with a supersedes edge to expired forms.
  • 03

    Event log

    Attestations, transactions, maneuvers, commissioning. Causal ordering via Merkle pointers.
  • 04

    Counterparty graph

    Who this DID transacts with. Used by ORCH for default-fund exposure and by Terminal for relationship visualisation.

Moat

One registration. Every product, forever.

DIDs minted
0

Pre-Launch directory — carryover from SpaceX Jan 2026 filings.

Registered operators
0
Append p99
32 ms
Anchor lag
57 min

Get a DID

The first 5 minutes of every Wavestar integration.

Onboarding starts here. The method is open, the log is public, the registration flow is 15 minutes.

Begin registrationRead the method spec