Cyber

G20 and UNOOSA promote sharing space data and technology

U.S. Space Force awards $298 million military contract to Boeing

U.S. Space Force awards multi-million space cybersecurity contract to Northrop Grumman

UK start-up AegiQ secured £1.4m to develop quantum communications

Amergint completes acquisition of Raytheon's space-based optics business

US issues fifth Space Policy Directive on space cybersecurity

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) announced two contract awards for the first generation of the Transport Layer.

Serbian Case for Space Foundation organized its third webinar, together with Spacewatch.Global, on the 23rd July 2020. On this occasion, SCS wanted to tackle an important topic that often takes a backseat to popular engineering and technological feats when it comes to public perception of space industry: cyber security in outer space. SCS invited Andrej Petrovski, the Director of Tech at Share Foundation and Daniel Porras, the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications at the Secure World Foundation.

In this week’s Space Café Special, Serbian Case for Space was in a conversation on “Cyber security and how to protect outer space”.

SpaceChain Foundation announced on 19 May 2020 it has contracted and invested in Core Semiconductor, an innovator in provably secure computing platforms for all connected devices, to produce the world’s first open-source hardware platform capable of providing a downlink to mobile phones and small devices directly from satellites in orbit, without the use of a satellite dish on Earth or a third-party network.