Earth observation data increasingly informs commercial, environmental, and national-security decisions. But can a customer verify where an image came from, what software processed it, whether the workload ran in the expected orbital environment, and whether the result was altered in transit? Using EO as a concrete use case, this presentation explores an end-to-end architecture for verifiable space infrastructure – from mission-control services running in trusted execution environments, through Orbitport’s ground-to-orbit path, to Space Fabric’s attested execution, and source-signed data in orbit. We will show how remote attestation, policy enforcement, and provenance can replace selected assumptions with independently checkable evidence. We will also draw clear boundaries: provenance does not prove physical truth, attestation does not replace authorization, and verifiable trust does not stop jamming or kinetic attack. The session concludes with applications beyond EO for commercial and government missions.
