EAGER: DCL: SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Space Cybersecurity, Policy, and Risks

外层空间资产对现代生活至关重要，例如GPS定位、金融服务连接、灾区监视和全球通信。它们的战略重要性和与地球的物理距离使它们特别容易受到网络攻击。随着技术的进步和空间活动步伐的加快，这种威胁会随着时间的推移而增加。这些活动大多是在没有公众对网络安全风险发表评论的情况下进行的。考虑到有意或无意的网络攻击可能会产生更多的太空碎片，风险就变得更高了。这些攻击可能会威胁到轨道和发射的安全。因此，从技术和政策角度理解这些风险情景对于理解和减轻空间网络漏洞至关重要。因此，该项目是对国家安全、经济稳定和公共安全的贡献。该项目提供了一套广泛的场景和分类，关于空间技术如何发生网络攻击，包括新颖或罕见的威胁。由于空间法仍然欠发达，该研究包括对多种风险情景所产生的伦理、法律和政策问题和差距的分析。该项目由伦理学家和技术专家组成，是跨学科的。该项目还通过空间系统架构、空间法和网络法律方面的额外领域专业知识研讨会进行指导。其目标是提供一份公开报告，向公民宣传，让学生学习太空网络安全、道德和政策。通过这一努力，该项目旨在保护重要的空间领域免受网络攻击的损害，而网络攻击已经困扰了其他对人类生活重要的领域。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Outer space assets are critical to modern life, such as for GPS positioning, financial-services connectivity, surveillance of disaster areas, and global communications. Their strategic importance and physical distance from Earth make them particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. This threat increases over time with technological advances and the accelerating pace of space activities. Much of these activities are conducted without public comment on cybersecurity risks. The stakes become even higher given that more space debris could be created by cyberattacks, either deliberately or unintentionally. These attacks could threaten safe orbits and launches. Thus, understanding these risk scenarios, from technical and policy perspectives, is essential to understand and mitigate cyber vulnerabilities in space. In doing so, the project is a contribution to national security, economic stability, and public safety. This project offers a broad set of scenarios and taxonomy on how cyberattacks could occur with space technologies, including novel or rare threats. Because space law is still under-developed, the study includes an analysis of the ethical, legal, and policy issues and gaps that arise from multiple risk scenarios. With a team of ethicists and technologists, the project is interdisciplinary. The project is also guided through a workshop for additional domain expertise in space systems architecture, space law, and cyber law. The goal is to deliver a public report, citizen outreach, and student learning about space cybersecurity, ethics, and policy. Through this effort, the project aims to protect the vital space domain from the damage of cyberattacks that have plagued other domains important to human life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.