By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 26 March 2022 SpaceX showed off a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle in February, but that vehicle now appears unlikely to perform the first orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 22 March 2022 WASHINGTON — Changes in the geopolitical landscape following Russia’s war in Ukraine are pushing space companies to tighten international supply chains amid a renewed focus on security. “We’re having to scrutinize our supply chain even more,” Tina Ghataore, chief commercial officer
By Scott Ikeda, Published by CPO Magazine, 17 March 2022 A cyber attack that disrupted international satellite internet and TV provider Viasat is being investigated by French, United States and Ukrainian intelligence services as a potential action by Russian hackers. The service interruption began on the morning of February 24
By Pierluigi Pagannini, Published by Security Affairs, 5 March 2022 Orange confirmed that “nearly 9,000 subscribers” of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France were offline following a “cyber event” that took place on February 24 at Viasat, the US giant satellite operator that provides services
By Frank Gardner, Published by the BBC, 30 December 2021 The year 2021 has seen a fundamental shift in British defence and security policy. Up goes the budget for digital technology, artificial intelligence and cyber. Down goes the money for more traditional hardware and troop numbers. All of this at
By Alice Pannier, Published by Techcrunch, 14 November 2021 The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Quantum information science has long languished in an academic corner of the tech sector. But recent advances mean that the sector has taken on
By Aaron Mehta, Published by Breaking Defense, 27 October 2021 WASHINGTON: More than any other threat, cyber attacks are the greatest concern for the US national security enterprise in the next five years, according to the results of the first ever Breaking Defense Space Survey. The online survey, which ran from
By Lucas Ropek, Published by Gizmodo, 16 September 2021 Earlier this week, the Department of Justice revealed that three former U.S. intelligence operatives were facing federal charges in connection with their work for DarkMatter, a foreign cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates. The men, who formerly worked for
