The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane has blasted off from Florida on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before. As on previous missions, there are no humans on board the reusable plane, which resembles a mini space shuttle and carries classified experiments. The Falcon Heavy, composed of three rocket cores strapped together, took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral more
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The year 2023 has been marked by significant cyber turbulence in the space sector. The aftermath of the 2023 KA-SAT attack has fundamentally altered the world’s collective perception of cyber risk and the corresponding implications for space. In addition, 2023 has heralded a surge in the scope and scale of cyber targeting, a bevy of emerging trends and the introduction of new threat actors operating within the space industry. Without question, from 2022 to 2023, the frequency of cyber campaign
