Space Threats: Lasers, Cyber Attacks, and Satellite Takedowns! #shorts

So this has been already demonstrated by a couple of nations like the US, China and so on that you can actually shoot down a satellite. That's definitely something that you can do. Um you can also point a laser at a satellite and it will have a very bad bad impact. So this is the more flashy threat. Um You have of course electromagnetic so classic GPS spoofing, GPS jamming. You can also attack the spacecraft communication links so the um housekeeping. So if you want to control a spacecraft over RF. Um And then you have cyber. Um So the next couple of slides I want to introduce you a bit to why cyber is a very interesting topic in space system

security um because it has its unique uh properties. Um so for the kinetic physical attacks you can you can destroy a ground station totally. That's possible. Um but you can also launch a rocket at a satellite. And yeah, this will also definitely destroy the satellite. Um but what you can also do was recently demonstrated by China you can dock to another satellite and drag it. So you can move it somewhere else. So how how do you counter that? Um Then come non-kinetic and electromagnetic threats. So you have what I told you about so you can do like laser attacks. For example, if you have an optical sensor and you use an high-power laser, you can permanently

damage or at least blind it temporarily and cause a denial of service. So if it flies over you, you can point your laser at it and it will very likely do something. Um the same you can do with RF, especially interesting for synthetic aperture radar. So you can do like radar imaging of the earth's surface with satellite. This is currently done. Um but you can also jam that. We'll show an example how this looks later on.