Spacecraft Security: Evolving Threats & Cloud Solutions #shorts

space segment, like I said earlier, so you can of course someone trying to to shoot a rocket at you or try to grab your satellite, so they are adding more maneuverability to the systems. Um same goes for electronic warfare, so they they try to be more resilient to to jamming attacks. Also using like laser communications, which is a lot more directed and a lot more difficult to intercept or to attack. And active sensor protection systems. Um what what we see is an increased like use of cloud services, also like the big providers like uh Microsoft and also um Amazon, they have their own ground station network, which you can access actually as like an AWS ground station

service. So they have like sites around the world where you can subscribe to. Um this is like this ground station as a service concept. There's a couple of players out there. Um but this comes of course always with a risk. So if you are relying on one of them, yeah. Better to make sure that you do it properly. Um another thing which was previously burned into the spacecraft is the software. Um now with more powerful onboard computers, it actually becomes more configurable and now often actually users can run sandboxed applications on spacecrafts directly. So this is used for example for edge processing. So if you take an image of the surface of Earth and you have cloud coverage above

80%, um you might want to discard it. So there is like image processing going on on board and all these custom applications. Um which again introduces some risk because now you have suddenly software from some someone else running on a spacecraft.