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This paper suggests adoption of blockchain technology in distributed multi-satellite mission swarm networks to provide a high level of reliability and availability of the entire system; the blockchain is usually used to secure system transactions in multilayer approach by storage of the key parameters in more than one node; here we suggest the adoption of this approach not only to secure satellite network transaction, but also to increase system reliability so that failure of one node can be recovered by other nodes. We compared this approach with similar traditional networks that do not use blockchain. 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