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，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。随着技术进步和空间活动步伐的加快，这一威胁会随着时间的推移而增加。这些活动中有许多是在没有公开评论网络安全风险的情况下进行的。考虑到网络攻击可能会有意或无意地制造更多的空间碎片，风险变得更高。这些攻击可能威胁到安全的轨道和发射。因此，从技术和政策角度理解这些风险情景对于理解和减轻空间网络脆弱性至关重要。这样做，该项目是对国家安全，经济稳定和公共安全的贡献。该项目提供了一套广泛的场景和分类，说明网络攻击如何与空间技术一起发生，包括新颖或罕见的威胁。由于空间法仍不完善，研究报告分析了多种风险情景所产生的伦理、法律的和政策问题及差距。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、空间法和网络法方面的其他领域专业知识讲习班得到指导。其目标是提供一份公开报告，公民宣传，学生学习空间网络安全，道德和政策。通过这一努力，该项目旨在保护至关重要的空间领域免受网络攻击的损害，这些网络攻击曾困扰着对人类生活至关重要的其他领域。该奖项反映了NSF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.