{"id":47221,"date":"2026-04-07T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cybersecurity-in-space-is-hard-in-cislunar-space-its-really-hard\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:36:55","slug":"cybersecurity-in-space-is-hard-in-cislunar-space-its-really-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cybersecurity-in-space-is-hard-in-cislunar-space-its-really-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity in Space is Hard; In Cislunar Space, it\u2019s Really Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In space, cybersecurity is hard. Many of the strategies cyber defenders rely on daily to protect terrestrial networks, like centrally managed anomaly detection, regular patching of emergent software vulnerabilities, and replacement of outdated or compromised hardware, are difficult, and sometimes impossible or unaffordable, in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>But in cislunar space between the Earth and the Moon, and on the lunar surface, experts and former officials tell&nbsp;<em class=\"Annotation -emphasis\">Via Satellite<\/em>, cybersecurity is going to be even harder. Many of the work-arounds, substitutes, and novel strategies developed to protect assets in orbit \u2014 especially the new software-defined Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations\u2014 aren\u2019t going to work at the vast distances of cislunar space and with the very different parameters of lunar missions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS_04050126_DGTL_Cover-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Via Satellite April\/May 2026 Issue\" style=\"width: 120px; height: auto;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS_04050126_DGTL_Cover-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS_04050126_DGTL_Cover-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS_04050126_DGTL_Cover-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS_04050126_DGTL_Cover.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fs-5 mt-0\">Explore the April\/May 2026 Issue<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-0 fs-smaller text-balance\">Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-primary\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"offcanvas\" data-bs-target=\"#offcanvasMENU\" aria-controls=\"offcanvasExample\" aria-label=\"button\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView More <i class=\"bi bi-arrow-right-circle\"><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>For example, unlike the LEO constellations, which tend to refresh their satellite hardware every few years, cislunar infrastructure, in space and on the Moon\u2019s surface, will need to be functional for at least 10 to 15 years. And the huge distances involved, and the communication lags they entail, mean cyber defenses \u2014 and everything else \u2014 will have to be largely autonomous.<\/p>\n<p>Radio waves take almost three seconds to complete the round trip to the Moon and between six and 44 minutes to Mars and back, explains Sam Visner, chairman of the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space-ISAC), a non-profit industry association that collects, collates and shares threat information among companies in the space sector. That means autonomy is indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we send a command to drive the rover on Mars, we don\u2019t sit there with a steering wheel. We don\u2019t send a radio signal which operates a hydraulics system,\u201d Visner explains, \u201cWe send high level software commands, and they go to a computer on board the rover, and that computer then interprets them and tells the rover how to execute that maneuver. \u2018Go forward, go back, turn left, turn right. Dig for this sample here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb838a1a;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb838a1a = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb838a1b').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb838a1b'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This means that cislunar space, even more so than orbital space, is IT intensive and software defined, says Visner. Sensors, telemetry, commands, all are filtered through IT and software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to know what\u2019s going on in the cislunar environment, you\u2019re going to rely on information technology. If you want to know how well your systems are performing, or if they\u2019re not performing, or if there\u2019s a problem, you will be relying on information technology. Every aspect of operations in that environment is going to be IT intensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But software-defined everything means everything is an attack surface. \u201cThe ability to ensure the integrity of the information systems on which everything will depend is going to be critical,\u201d Visner says.<\/p>\n<h3>A Complex, Sprawling Attack Surface<\/h3>\n<p>NASA has set out its Artemis vision for lunar and cislunar space as a multi-national undertaking. More than 60 countries have signed on to the Artemis accords, a set of broad principles for space exploration; and Canada, the EU, Japan, and the UAE are all contributing astronauts and infrastructure to the Artemis program. In a recent massive Artemis program overhaul,&nbsp;NASA scrapped plans for the Gateway Lunar space station&nbsp;the most multi-national element of the program. Despite the Gateway cancellation, Artemis will still rely on international partners for sections of the Orion spacecraft. And the lunar surface habitat that might replace Gateway as the centerpiece of a multi-mission and eventually long term lunar presence, looks likely to be a multi-national endeavor also.<\/p>\n<p>NASA also says Artemis depends crucially on partnerships with the private sector. And the prospect of lunar commercialization, profit-making activities on the Moon, is generating a lot of excitement among venture capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>But this increasingly sprawling and complex set of stakeholders and participants in the Artemis program creates additional cybersecurity risks, because of differing security standards and the greater potential for insider threats, says Matthew Lamanna, a former U.S. Air Force cyber analyst whose 20 year career culminated as the manager of cyberspace intelligence at the Air Force\u2019s storied Operational Test and Evaluation Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyber on Earth is already the Wild West,\u201d says Lamanna, now a co-host of the podcast You\u2019ve Already Been Hacked. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to hold bad actors accountable, every country has its own set of standards and regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that it was important to set universal cybersecurity standards from the very beginning of an undertaking like Artemis. \u201cThere should be a cybersecurity subsection [to the Artemis Accords], and the rules need to be set up front, so everyone is meeting the same standards from the beginning, because you can\u2019t do what we tend to do, and try to bolt it on after the fact,\u201d he says, \u201cThat is a recipe for failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>In Cislunar Space, Critical Infrastructure Is Really Critical<\/h3>\n<p>And the consequences of failure are dire, points out Lamanna. In space, everything is critical infrastructure, and critical means really critical. \u201cDown here, if there\u2019s a cyberattack and you lose power or water for a day or so, it\u2019s bad, but it\u2019s survivable. On the Moon: How long can you go without air?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb8390c4;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb8390c4 = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb8390c5').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb8390c5'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>But the criticality of life support systems is not unique to the lunar and cislunar environment, Lamanna points out, and NASA has decades of experience engineering resilient, redundant systems. \u201cNASA knows how to do this. They have backup comms, backup power, backup everything. And the backups have backups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A government watchdog has sounded the alarm on how a cyber attack could impact NASA. Auditors from the Government Accountability Office&nbsp;found in 2024&nbsp;that a cyber attack on a NASA spacecraft \u201ccould result in loss of mission data, decreased lifespan or capability of space systems, or the loss of control of space vehicles.\u201d The auditors said that although NASA had issued cybersecurity guidance, they had not made it mandatory for programs or incorporated it into their acquisition contracts with vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the auditors said that in the two elements of the Artemis program they scrutinized, the contracts included requirements related to NASA\u2019s spacecraft cybersecurity standards, and required contractors to demonstrate those requirements through testing.<\/p>\n<p>NASA did not make any official available for interview and did not provide written responses to questions from&nbsp;<em class=\"Annotation -emphasis\">Via Satellite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But one entrepreneur in the lunar infrastructure business believes that cislunar distances might help cybersecurity. The long delays in data transmission make some forms of cyberattack untenable, according to Christopher Stott, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lonestar Data Holdings, a Florida-based startup offering data storage and recovery services in cislunar space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh latency equals high security,\u201d Stott tells&nbsp;<em class=\"Annotation -emphasis\">Via Satellite<\/em>, arguing that the long delays make brute force and password spray attacks \u2014 favorite hacker techniques involving repeated attempts to log on with stolen or guessed credentials \u2014 impossible, because Transmission Control Protocol\/Internet Protocol connections break down if there are delays in transmission. \u201cTCP\/IP times out. No brute force attacks. A second is a long time in cyber space,\u201d says Stott.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, NASA has had to develop new protocols to \u201cbring internet-like functionality to space communications,\u201d the agency says on its&nbsp;website. Delay\/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is designed to keep cislunar and interplanetary networks functioning even when transmission of data packets is delayed or interrupted.<\/p>\n<h3>Securing Solutions to the Lunar Power Problem<\/h3>\n<p>For the long-term sustainable human presence on the Moon that Artemis ultimately envisages, let alone the successful commercial exploitation of lunar resources, one challenge looms above all others \u2014 power.<\/p>\n<p>For non-propulsion power, space missions have traditionally relied on solar energy, but that\u2019s an issue on the lunar surface where night can last an Earth fortnight and temperatures fall to near absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb839519;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb839519 = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb83951a').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb83951a'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030, but Volta Space Technologies, a startup headquartered in Montr\u00e9al and with offices in the U.S., has a different vision. The company plans for satellites in orbit around the Moon that will collect solar energy and then transmit it down to customers on the lunar surface using lasers, beaming to special receivers called LightPorts, mounted on habitats, landers and rovers, any lunar infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Volta\u2019s lasers can also be used for high bandwidth optical communications, the company says. And it\u2019s working with the Pentagon on military applications.<\/p>\n<p>The first LightPort will be set up on the Moon\u2019s far side this year, thanks to funding from the Canadian Space Agency. It will be carried on the Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander&nbsp;being built by Firefly Aerospace&nbsp;as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Targeted for launch towards the end of the year, Blue Ghost Mission 2 will follow up on Firefly\u2019s first ever fully successful commercial Moon landing last year by Blue Ghost Mission 1. The LightPort on the new lander will validate the company\u2019s concept and show how lunar assets can access Volta\u2019s orbital power grid, says the company\u2019s Senior Director for Global Sales and Business Development Diego Paldao.<\/p>\n<h3>Zero Trust in Space<\/h3>\n<p>Volta Space starts out with security, he tells&nbsp;<em class=\"Annotation -emphasis\">Via Satellite<\/em>, \u201cIt\u2019s no longer just about designing something that\u2019s really cool and useful, it\u2019s about that and then protecting that capability and protecting your customer downstream \u2026 Because at the end of the day, it is a laser. We want to make sure it\u2019s operated safely and within the parameters of the service we\u2019re providing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volta adopted Zero Trust cybersecurity principles, meaning every login, every interaction, is regarded as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have suppliers working with us, and they\u2019re critical to the entire ecosystem that we\u2019re developing. But we \u2026 have to make our [network] entry points secure,\u201d Paldao explains, even when that creates friction for users. Zero Trust principles dictate that even logged-in users may have to re-authenticate when they request access to sensitive parts of the system. \u201cSo even if it may be a little bit onerous, there are cybersecurity requirements that we have in place that our suppliers and partners need to follow,\u201d Paldao says.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Blue Ghost Lander, and the Artemis program itself, Volta\u2019s lunar energy network will be a multinational proposition, says Paldao. Dealing with government and commercial customers from several different countries means thinking differently about cybersecurity. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to have a bunch of different nations and commercial and government players involved, but ultimately, that requires an architecture that\u2019s interoperable but secure as well,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<h3>The Whole Range of Threat Actors<\/h3>\n<p>And that architecture needs to be secure against the whole range of cyber threat actors, says former Defense Intelligence Agency CTO Robert \u201cBob\u201d Gourley.<\/p>\n<p><script>var AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb8399fc;googletag.cmd.push(function(){var AIMAP_29b58f13885ebf8ea6b032f958eb0748 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([992, 100], [[970, 90], [970, 250]]).addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_737ce075cc05dd766c8f8ea08f3faa73 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([768, 100], [728, 90]).addSize([320, 100], [320, 50]).build();var AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3 = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1200, 100], [970, 250]).addSize([768, 100], [600, 300]).addSize([320, 100], [300, 250]).build();AIAD_fcd45f981d570e35cee941b23edc69c7_6a68edb8399fc = googletag.defineSlot('\/987\/satellitetoday.com\/via-satellite-digital-issue-ads', [ [600, 300], [300, 250], [970, 250] ], 'div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb8399fd').defineSizeMapping(AIMAP_21fe3bcfb86a8660aba4e721ee9338f3).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).addService(googletag.pubads());   });<\/script><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1774631144891- 0-6a68edb8399fd'); });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s world, any nation with resources to find and exploit [software] vulnerabilities, which is almost all countries, could potentially have the capability to disrupt Artemis,\u201d says Gourley, now CTO and founder of OODA, a strategic advisory consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>Gourley points to hackers linked to Russian intelligence that have attacked international institutions like the Olympic games, and sees the possibility that China might seek to covertly sabotage Artemis in order to demonstrate the superiority of Beijing\u2019s space technology. The fig leaf of plausible deniability offered by cyber operations is growing increasingly translucent as attribution improves, but in certain circumstances, say those of Iran right now, a nation might \u201cdecide they do not care,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just nation states, points out Gourley. Ransomware gangs have attacked hospitals and schools, so why would they stop at lunar infrastructure? Even individuals, empowered by AI, might soon be a threat. \u201cSome men just want to watch the world burn,\u201d says Gourley, quoting Alfred in the Batman movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge for NASA is that they must defend against all potential attackers, from nation states to criminal groups and even individuals,\u201d Gourley says.<\/p>\n<p>Space-ISAC, the industry threat-sharing organization, has held table-top exercises simulating a cyber incident impacting lunar infrastructure\u2014a mining facility on the Moon, and a lunar satellite\u2014Visner says.<\/p>\n<p>In the exercise scenario, he explains, the players have to decide whether to spend time and resources figuring out if the incident was just an IT glitch or a cyber attack. \u201cWhat should be your focus, given the criticality of life support systems? Is attribution important when you only have a few hours to get something fixed? Or do you focus your attention on getting things fixed and worry about attribution and law enforcement issues later on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no easy answers,\u201d he says, \u201cbut that\u2019s kind of the point. We want to stress test the participants.&nbsp;<strong class=\"Annotation -strong\">VS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>,<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">In This Issue<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 403349:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eLaTG8xReWKi5gdbEJ4G_VS_04050126_DGTL_2-300x225.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eLaTG8xReWKi5gdbEJ4G_VS_04050126_DGTL_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eLaTG8xReWKi5gdbEJ4G_VS_04050126_DGTL_2-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eLaTG8xReWKi5gdbEJ4G_VS_04050126_DGTL_2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eLaTG8xReWKi5gdbEJ4G_VS_04050126_DGTL_2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"fs-4 w-100 line-clamp-3\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s Unanimous: Space Already Functions as Critical Infrastructure<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p><!-- .post-snippet --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-3 d-block d-md-none\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post id 403343:  \/code\/wp-content\/themes\/ai-beehive\/template-parts\/content\/post-snippet.php --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"overflow-hidden w-100 me-3\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c47u0FVNQKm0lUNiDL0H_VS_04050126_DGTL_3-300x225.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c47u0FVNQKm0lUNiDL0H_VS_04050126_DGTL_3-300x225.jpg 300w, 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