NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—U.S. researchers and military contractors are working on new tools to protect space operations from cyber attackers, and one company has launched a satellite to serve as an on-orbit cyber range to test out defenses, speakers said at the AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference last week.
Terrestrial cybersecurity practices aren’t up to handling the cyber defense of space-based systems like satellite communications and Earth observation constellations, according to Charleen Laughlin, the Space Force’s Deputy Chief of Space Operations for cyber and data . Space operations rely on an architecture that includes ground systems as well as on-orbit assets and the data links that connect them, Laughlin told a panel session at the conference.
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