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Cybersecurity

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

Connectivity

AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup

Technology

Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration

A June 2026 US executive order pulls the federal post-quantum deadline to 2030. For satellites built to fly for 15 years and never be patched, the clock effectively started at launch.

Jul 17, 2026

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Government/Military

Technology

Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration

A June 2026 US executive order pulls the federal post-quantum deadline to 2030. For satellites built to fly for 15 years and never be patched, the clock effectively started at launch.

Technology
IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

Cybersecurity

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

A $750 rooftop dish let researchers intercept 39 geostationary satellites. Half the IP links they scanned were unencrypted, exposing calls, military telemetry and utility control data.

Cybersecurity
Russian Satellites Named as Source of Years-Long GPS Jamming

Connectivity

AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup

AST SpaceMobile is carving out secure spectrum on its phone satellites to feed the Pentagon an alternative to GPS, and its ground segment has to keep that traffic separate from ordinary phone calls.

Government/Military

Space Force's New Jammer Puts Its Own Command Link at Risk

The Space Force just fielded its Meadowlands satellite jammer. Its remote command link and open-architecture updates raise a cybersecurity question no one has answered yet.

Policy & Regulation

EU Space Act Sets a 12-Hour Cyberattack Reporting Clock for Satellite Operators

Brussels' draft Space Act would give satellite operators serving EU markets just 12 hours to report a major cyberattack, tighter than the bloc's existing NIS2 deadline.

Launch & Ground Segment

ESA's CyberCUBE Satellite Opens an In-Orbit Testbed for Space Cyber Defenses

ESA's CyberCUBE satellite, led by GMV Romania, launched July 7 to test jamming countermeasures, command-injection defenses and post-quantum cryptography in real orbit.

Space cybersecurity and satellite industry, reported.

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup

Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration

Space Force's New Jammer Puts Its Own Command Link at Risk

IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

EU Space Act Sets a 12-Hour Cyberattack Reporting Clock for Satellite Operators

ESA's CyberCUBE Satellite Opens an In-Orbit Testbed for Space Cyber Defenses

Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration

IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

Russian Satellites Named as Source of Years-Long GPS Jamming

AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup

Space Force's New Jammer Puts Its Own Command Link at Risk

EU Space Act Sets a 12-Hour Cyberattack Reporting Clock for Satellite Operators

ESA's CyberCUBE Satellite Opens an In-Orbit Testbed for Space Cyber Defenses

Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup

Space Force's New Jammer Puts Its Own Command Link at Risk

IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

EU Space Act Sets a 12-Hour Cyberattack Reporting Clock for Satellite Operators

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