DEFENSIVE DISCLOSURE ARCHIVE OF REDUNDANT CODING (ARC) A standardized, Multi-pathway Generic Archive Payload for Routine Deployment on Orbital Launch Vehicles

Purpose of This Disclosure This document is a defensive publication under the principles of prior art law. Its purpose is to establish a public, timestamped, and permanently archived record of the technical concepts, system architecture, and design elements of the Archive of Redundant Coding (ARC), such that no party may obtain patent protection over any element described herein. This disclosure supplements and incorporates by reference the following prior publications by the same author: Reynolds, I.D. "The Single Address Problem: Common-Mode Vulnerability and the Case for Planetary Redundancy." Zenodo, 2026. doi:10.5281/zenodo.19007456 Reynolds, I.D. "Seeding the Void: A Technical Framework for Genetic Dispersal Using Existing Launch Infrastructure." Zenodo, 2026. doi:10.5281/zenodo.19007604 Reynolds, I.D. "The Archive of Redundant Coding (ARC): Technical Specification, Revision 2.1." March 2026. Reynolds, I.D. "Policy Briefing: The Biological Black Box Mandate." March 2026. All four documents are archived on Zenodo with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and are indexed by Google Scholar, establishing public prior art as of their respective upload dates. SHA: ccdfc7dd197fc3b1f1955d1ec76b6d09fb6212d2a8e256da6876639d386403b3