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Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System
Government/Military

Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System

IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems
Technology

IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months
Policy & Regulation

Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months

The Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025 has now cleared three congressional committees in three months, putting a long-stalled satellite security bill closer to a Senate floor vote than it has ever been.

Aug 18, 2026
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Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration
Technology

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

Jul 17, 2026
Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds
Cybersecurity

Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds

Jul 15, 2026
AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup
Connectivity

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

Jul 10, 2026
Space Force's New Jammer Puts Its Own Command Link at Risk
Government/Military

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

Jul 10, 2026
Technology
The Answer to GPS Spoofing: Authentication and Alt-PNT
Technology

The Answer to GPS Spoofing: Authentication and Alt-PNT

The GPS interference disrupting thousands of flights and ships exposes a design flaw satnav is finally fixing: the civilian signal was never built to prove it is real.

Policy & Regulation
Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months
Policy & Regulation

Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months

The Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025 has now cleared three congressional committees in three months, putting a long-stalled satellite security bill closer to a Senate floor vote than it has ever been.

Government/Military
Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System
Government/Military

Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System

The Pentagon's July 13 suspension of CMMC third-party audits reverts satellite and launch suppliers to self-attestation, just as attacks on the space supply chain climb sharply.

Cybersecurity
Half of Scanned GEO Satellite Links Were Unencrypted, Study Finds
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.

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

    Launch & Ground Segment
    ESA's CyberCUBE Satellite Opens an In-Orbit Testbed for Space Cyber Defenses
    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.

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      1. 1Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months
        Policy & Regulation

        Satellite Cybersecurity Act Clears Three Committees in Three Months

      2. 2Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System
        Government/Military

        Pentagon's CMMC Pause Leaves Space Suppliers on the Honor System

      3. 3IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems
        Technology

        IEEE Approves First International Standard for Designing Secure Space Systems

      4. 4AST SpaceMobile's Phone Satellites Are Also Becoming a GPS Backup
        Connectivity

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

      5. 5The Answer to GPS Spoofing: Authentication and Alt-PNT
        Technology

        The Answer to GPS Spoofing: Authentication and Alt-PNT

      6. 6Post-Quantum by 2030: Why Satellites Are the Hardest Migration
        Technology

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