Moonlighter, the first hacking sandbox in space, reached the International Space Station on Tuesday morning. It's purpose is to give good hackers the opportunity to identify methods that could prevent other satellites from being hijacked.
FILE - In this handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, a view of the International Space Station taken on March 30, 2022 by crew of Russian Soyuz MS-19 space ship after undocking from the Station. Moonlighter, the first hacking sandbox in space, reached the International Space Station on Tuesday morning.
Aerospace Corp. is a nonprofit that operates a federally funded research and development center. It developed Moonlighter with Space Systems Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory. The satellite will be used duringpresented by the Air Force. This will be the first year finalists get to hack an actual satellite in space.
Moonlighter’s fully reprogrammable payload computer behaves like a flight computer, which allows cybersecurity experiments to be repeatable, realistic and secure. Moonlighter also has a firewall to protect the actual satellite from the hackers.
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