The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen ties with the commercial space industry. The aim is to integrate commercial equipment into military space operations, including satellites and other hardware. This would enhance cybersecurity for military satellites. As space becomes more important to the world’s critical infrastructure, the risk increases that hostile nation states will deploy cyber-attacks on important satellites and other space infrastructure. Targ
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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
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
