{"id":56960,"date":"2021-08-09T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-moving-toward-interoperable-secure-future-us-space-command-gen-says\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:37:12","slug":"space-moving-toward-interoperable-secure-future-us-space-command-gen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-moving-toward-interoperable-secure-future-us-space-command-gen-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Moving Toward Interoperable, Secure Future US Space Command Gen. Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Space is likely heading toward more hybrid, interoperable architectures, the deputy commander of the <strong>U.S. Space Command<\/strong> said Monday at the Small Satellite Conference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just like how terrestrial devices connect to a universal internet, Lt. Gen. John Shaw spoke during a Monday keynote of his vision of the future in which satellites connect to a universal network.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ll be an \u2018internet of space things\u2019 that will all somehow connect with one another,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of that will be for safety reasons \u2014 autonomous communication between satellite constellations to know where other satellites are. That may actually drive autonomous collision avoidance or at least awareness of issues so that humans on the ground can take action.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shaw said smallsats are leading the charge toward this future, as smallsats within a constellation can communicate with each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Satellite constellations can also distribute cyber risk compared to large Geostationary (GEO) satellite assets, and cyber resilience is a top priority in the U.S. Space Command, Shaw said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of time before we see some of the same cyber challenges terrestrially have some sort of manifestation in the space domain \u2014 whether it\u2019s a ransomware attack on a commercial space system of some kind of infiltration of a managed control system of a commercial constellation,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cThose are significant threats we need to be focused on.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any discussion of future space capabilities needs to include conversation about cyber threats and defenses as a matter of survival for the industry, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shaw posed the question:\u201cWe [at the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong>] we are continually asking \u2014&nbsp;How is this going to be cyber resilient? How are you baking cyber defense mechanisms into your capability?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is likely heading toward more hybrid, interoperable architectures, the deputy commander of the U.S. Space Command said Monday at the Small Satellite Conference.&nbsp; Just like how terrestrial devices connect to a universal internet, Lt. Gen. John Shaw spoke during a Monday keynote of his vision of the future in which satellites connect to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}