Method for distributing authenticatable satellite data between entities

A method comprising, at an entity:

• serving a first query to a first database comprising a corpus of satellite data;
• receiving a first data package from the first database, the first data package originating from a first entity;
• retrieving a first public decryption key associated with the first entity;
• attempting decryption of the first data package via the first public decryption key;
• and
• in response to the first public decryption key decrypting the first data package:
• identifying the first data package as authenticated;
• extracting a first set of satellite coordinates, corresponding to a first satellite, from the first data package;
• extracting a second data package from the first data package, the second data package originating from a second entity;
• retrieving a second public decryption key associated with the second entity;
• attempting decryption of the second data package via the second public decryption key;
• in response to the second public decryption key decrypting the second data package:
• identifying the second data package as authenticated;
• and
• extracting a second set of satellite coordinates, corresponding to a second satellite, from the second data package;
• and
• updating a virtual representation of positions and velocities of a first constellation of orbital satellites according to the first set of satellite coordinates and the second set of satellite coordinates.

A method comprising, at an entity:

• receiving a first data package from a first database the first data package originating from a first entity;
• attempting decryption of the first data package via a first public decryption key associated with the first entity;
• and
• in response to the first public decryption key decrypting the first data package:
• extracting a second data package from the first data package, the second data package originating from a second entity;
• attempting decryption of the second data package via a second public decryption key associated with the second entity;
• in response to the second public decryption key failing to decrypt the second data package, discarding the second data package;
• extracting a third data package from the first data package, the third data package originating from a third entity;
• attempting decryption of the third data package via a third public decryption key associated with the third entity;
• in response to the third public decryption key decrypting the third data package, extracting a set of satellite coordinates, corresponding to a satellite, from the third data package;
• and
• updating a virtual representation of positions and velocities of a constellation of orbital satellites according to the set of satellite coordinates.