This past week, senior Biden administration officials and industry representatives met in a forum to discuss cyber threats and how to strengthen cybersecurity across the ecosystem of space systems and committed to additional meetings, workshops and other efforts in the coming months. The March 28 forum was hosted by the White House Office of the…

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is awaiting the first launch for its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation set for this weekend. This is a highly anticipated launch as Tranche 0 demonstrates the feasibility of a proliferated constellation architecture for beyond line of sight targeting and advanced missile detection and tracking. The first 10 satellites of…

Space ISAC is opening a physical Operational Watch Center to monitor, analyze, and respond to cyber threats to space systems in real time.  Analysts will support the Watch Center by monitoring data feeds, detecting threats, building incident reports, and sharing information. Up to 10 analysts will physically work in the Operational Watch Center, co-located at…

Two decades ago, few in the U.S. defense community considered using commercial satellite services for national security missions. Nor did they envision a future where thousands of small systems in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) would power telecommunications, provide missile tracking capabilities, and rapidly transmit space-based imagery. Over the past half decade, the tune at the Pentagon,…