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Spaceit COO Mari Allik describes an ESA Space Cyber Range for exercising cyber threats before launch, alongside a 16U CubeSat that lets outside users run their code in orbit. The initiatives offer complementary ways to test space systems: simulated threat scenarios on the ground and validation through an operational spacecraft.
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At SDSC 2026, ETH Zurich researcher Clémence Poirier discusses tracking cyber attacks against space systems and assessing the sector’s threat landscape. Her central argument is that improving security depends less on creating additional frameworks than on implementing existing protections more effectively.
Spaceit COO Mari Allik describes an ESA Space Cyber Range for exercising cyber threats before launch, alongside a 16U CubeSat that lets outside users run their code in orbit. The initiatives offer complementary ways to test space systems: simulated threat scenarios on the ground and validation through an operational spacecraft.
Dr. Adrian Venables discusses TalTech’s Europe-focused master’s program in space cybersecurity, efforts to secure student smallsats and the growing interdependence of cyber and space systems. The program highlights the skills and security practices needed as satellite missions and their supporting infrastructure face digital risks.
CybExer’s Kristiina Omri discusses how cyber ranges can prepare organizations for attacks, including through a dedicated Space Cyber Range. She also addresses AI assurance and argues that Europe could leapfrog established approaches by building capabilities for emerging cyber threats rather than simply replicating legacy systems.
SpaceX sent 27 Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from California just after midnight on Oct. 31. The launch adds another batch to the constellation, extending the company’s ongoing deployment of its satellite internet network.
United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch 40 Amazon satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 13, pending range approval and favorable weather. The mission would use Vulcan to deploy spacecraft for Amazon’s low-Earth-orbit constellation, while SpaceX is separately adding 27 Starlink satellites in a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg.
The U.S. Department of Justice argues that Ligado Networks’ L-band license does not grant protected property rights, asking a federal judge to dismiss the bankrupt satellite operator’s roughly $50 billion lawsuit over its derailed wireless network plans. The filing marks another effort by the government to end the case.
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