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，例如全球定位系统定位、金融服务连接、对灾区的监视和全球通信。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，这一威胁随着时间的推移而增加。许多此类活动都是在没有就网络安全风险发表公开评论的情况下进行的。考虑到网络攻击可能会故意或无意地制造更多空间碎片，赌注变得更高。这些攻击可能威胁到安全的轨道和发射。因此，从技术和政策角度了解这些风险情景，对于了解和减轻空间中的网络脆弱性至关重要。通过这样做，该项目是对国家安全、经济稳定和公共安全的贡献。该项目就空间技术如何发生网络攻击，包括新的或罕见的威胁，提供了一系列广泛的情景和分类。由于空间法仍然不发达，这项研究包括对道德、法律和政策问题的分析，以及因多种风险情景而产生的差距。该项目由伦理学家和技术专家组成，是一个跨学科的项目。该项目还通过一个讲习班得到指导，以获得空间系统架构、空间法和网络法方面的其他领域专门知识。其目标是提供一份公共报告，公民宣传，以及学生对空间网络安全、伦理和政策的了解。通过这一努力，该项目旨在保护至关重要的太空领域免受网络攻击的破坏，这些攻击已经困扰了其他对人类生活重要的领域。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.