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10/03/2025

New Satellite Will Help Cyber Defenders Train to Stop Hackers in Orbit

Air and Space Forces

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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