Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking

Nesrine Benchoubane; Nida Fidan; Gunes Karabulut Kurt; Enver Ozdemir

doi:10.1109/ISCC65549.2025.11325964

Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking

Nesrine Benchoubane^*
, Nida Fidan
, Gunes Karabulut Kurt^*
, Enver Ozdemir

^*Corresponding author for this work

Informatics Institute

Department of Electrical Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

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Abstract

The increasing congestion of Earth's orbit due to growing satellite deployments and space debris poses a significant challenge to sustainable space operations. Traditional space surveillance systems rely on centralized architectures, which introduce single points of failure and scalability constraints. This paper proposes a blockchain-based solution, where satellites function as nodes with distinct roles to validate and securely store debristracking data. Simulation results indicate that optimal network performance is achieved with approximately 30 nodes, balancing throughput and response time, representing an approximately 9 × improvement over traditional consensus mechanisms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2025
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9798331524203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC65549.2025.11325964
Publication status	Published - 2025
Event	30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2025 - Bologna, Italy Duration: 2 Jul 2025 → 5 Jul 2025

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISSN (Print)	1530-1346

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Conference	30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2025
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	2/07/25 → 5/07/25

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Keywords

Blockchain
distributed ledger
orbital debris
space security

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Benchoubane, N., Fidan, N., Kurt, G. K., & Ozdemir, E. (2025). Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking. In 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2025 (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC65549.2025.11325964

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Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking. / Benchoubane, Nesrine; Fidan, Nida; Kurt, Gunes Karabulut et al.
30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025. (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications).

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Next-Gen Space-Based Surveillance: Blockchain for Trusted and Efficient Debris Tracking

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