Ground segment
Mission operations centers, gateways, and command infrastructure — hardened through zero-trust access, signed command paths, and immutable command audit.
Space Cybersecurity
The cyber domain extends to orbit.
Space systems are software systems. Their attack surface spans ground stations, RF links, on-board flight software, and downstream user enclaves. Securing them requires a single doctrine applied consistently across every segment.
A satellite is a software-defined asset operating in a contested electromagnetic and cyber environment. Its security posture is defined long before launch — in the supply chain, the build pipeline, and the protocol layer.
Capabilities
Seven domains of cyber capability.
Each domain is treated as a distinct engineering problem with explicit threat models, standards alignment, and evidence outputs.
01
Zero-trust architecture
Identity-first authorization across every system boundary. No implicit trust between segments, between services, or between operators. Every request is authenticated, authorized, and recorded.
02
Supply-chain integrity
Software bill of materials, signed builds, and reproducible artifacts. Provenance from source to deployment, including third-party and open-source dependencies in mission-critical paths.
03
Firmware and flight-software assurance
Signed and verified firmware, secure boot chains, and runtime attestation — extending integrity guarantees from the ground segment into on-orbit assets.
04
Mission-data protection
End-to-end confidentiality and integrity for tasking, telemetry, and downlinked products. Link-aware protection that survives the constraints of space-to-ground channels.
05
Key management and custody
Hardware-rooted key custody, defined rotation lifecycles, and segregated ceremony procedures. Cryptographic material is treated as a first-class operational asset.
06
Anomaly detection and response
Telemetry correlation across segments, signed-event streams, and machine-readable incident artifacts. Detection feeds verifiable response, not narrative reports.
07
Post-quantum readiness
Cryptographic agility as a design property. Algorithm transitions are scheduled operational events, not emergency rewrites — a forward concern treated as a present design constraint.
Defense Layers
Four segments. One coherent posture.
Link segment
The RF and optical pathways between ground and space — protected through link-aware cryptography and anomaly detection that respects channel constraints.
Space segment
On-board flight software, payloads, and inter-satellite links — assured by signed firmware, runtime attestation, and protocol-level integrity.
User segment
Downstream enclaves consuming mission data — bound by policy-as-code, residency controls, and verifiable evidence of upstream assurance.
Cross-segment identity
A single identity ontology spans operators, systems, and services — preserving least-privilege guarantees across every cross-segment hand-off.
Cross-segment evidence
Signed, ordered, and verifiable event records survive segment boundaries — making forensic reconstruction and audit a function of the architecture itself.
Standards Posture
Engineered against the doctrine that already governs the domain.
Our cyber capabilities are mapped against NIST 800-53, 800-171, and 800-160 controls, MITRE knowledge bases for adversary behavior, ISO/IEC 27001 controls, and the CCSDS and ECSS standards that govern space systems engineering. Alignment is evidentiary, not declarative.
For allied programs, classification-aware lanes and export-control gating (ITAR, EAR, EU dual-use) are part of the operating model, not a configuration option.
Engage
Operate under verifiable cyber posture.
For agencies, operators, primes, and integrators evaluating cyber posture for space-system programs — we engage under appropriate confidentiality and export-control frameworks.