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·Mar 21

A Look into SPARTA Countermeasures

SPARTA’s mission is to ensure space system engineers are informed about countermeasures available to aid in mitigation. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Tim Dafoe Educating the space community on spacecraft tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) is one goal of SPARTA, but equally important is ensuring space system engineers are informed about countermeasures available to aid in mitigation. While TTPs are important to understand a threat actor’s “why” and “how,”…

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A Look into SPARTA Countermeasures
A Look into SPARTA Countermeasures
Space

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Mar 14

Why Testing Electric Propulsion Devices is Key to Deep Space Exploration

Electric propulsion offers low thrust with high fuel efficiency, making it well-suited for longer missions. The new Aerospace EP3 vacuum chamber is the largest in the world for testing these devices. — The need for increased agility in the space environment has prompted research into forms of propulsion that are capable of meeting the objectives of increasingly ambitious missions. While electric propulsion has previously been used mainly for the station-keeping of satellites (keeping a spacecraft at a fixed distance from another spacecraft…

Space

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Why Testing Electric Propulsion Devices is Key to Deep Space Exploration
Why Testing Electric Propulsion Devices is Key to Deep Space Exploration
Space

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Feb 24

Wildfire Detection and Monitoring from Space

Aerospace is identifying opportunities to improve wildfire detection and monitoring capabilities, efforts that could ultimately protect biodiversity, infrastructure, and human life, as well as mitigate wildfires’ financially damaging effect. — In 2021, more than 2.5 million acres burned due to California’s wildfires. The estimated economic loss was between $70 billion and $90 billion in the United States, with over half of that attributed to a California wildfire season aggravated by drought and intensified temperatures. Boosting space surveillance abilities helps to…

Satellite Imagery

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Wildfire Detection and Monitoring from Space
Wildfire Detection and Monitoring from Space
Satellite Imagery

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Feb 11

Our Analog Crew Spent Two Weeks in a Simulated Mars Mission

Future human missions to the moon and Mars require understanding the space environment to ensure crew members are prepared. Analog missions — field tests that mimic space-like conditions — are some of the closest ways we gain critical knowledge of what working in and inhabiting space is like. — To anticipate the needs of future space missions and sustainable operations in cislunar and Martian environments, The Aerospace Corporation sponsored a two-week analog mission at The Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in remote Hanksville, Utah, beginning Nov. 27.

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Our Analog Crew Spent Two Weeks in a Simulated Mars Mission
Our Analog Crew Spent Two Weeks in a Simulated Mars Mission
Mars

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Dec 21, 2022

What’s New in SPARTA v1.2? The Cyber Security Framework for Space Missions

SPARTA, released in October 2022, provides space professionals with a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. v1.2 delivers some significant updates. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Brad Roeher SPARTA version 1.0 was released on October 19th, 2022 during the Value of Space Summit hosted by the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC). Subsequently, on October 28th, 2022, v1.1 was released containing some User Interface (UI) enhancements and a significant amount of updated…

Mitre Attack

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What’s New in SPARTA v1.2? The Cyber Security Framework for Space Missions
What’s New in SPARTA v1.2? The Cyber Security Framework for Space Missions
Mitre Attack

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Dec 14, 2022

Rocket Scientists Weigh in on the Best Space Toys for STEM

Ever wonder what aerospace engineers think are the best STEM toys? We did too, so we asked some of our employees to weigh in. — With so many great STEM toys for kids, we decided to ask our employees at Aerospace for their recommendations this holiday season. We wanted to know what toys they loved, what their kids love, and what toys they wish they had growing up. The responses were overwhelming. From building sets…

Space

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Rocket Scientists Weigh in on the Best Space Toys for STEM
Rocket Scientists Weigh in on the Best Space Toys for STEM
Space

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Dec 6, 2022

Introducing SPARTA using PCSpooF: Cyber Security for Space Missions

The SPARTA framework offers space professionals a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. The PCSpooF academic research is mapped to the framework in an illustrative use case. — Authors: Adam Byerly, Gregory Falco, Brandon Bailey, Tim Dafoe, Brad Roeher Why SPARTA was created In 2013, MITRE created the ATT&CK framework to document common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries against enterprise networks. While the framework assists organizations in better understanding, visualizing, anticipating, and defending against cyber-attack, its taxonomy of offense…

Space

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Introducing SPARTA using PCSpooF: Cyber Security for Space Missions
Introducing SPARTA using PCSpooF: Cyber Security for Space Missions
Space

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Nov 3, 2022

Traffic Lights in Space? How to Craft Rules of the Road for a Growing Industry

Massive commercial and government investment in space has created a gap between individual participant decision-making and best practices for the space ecosystem. —

Rockets

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Traffic Lights in Space? How to Craft Rules of the Road for a Growing Industry
Traffic Lights in Space? How to Craft Rules of the Road for a Growing Industry
Rockets

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Oct 25, 2022

Space Test Program-3 (STP-3): Advancing Agility in the Space Enterprise

The Aerospace Corporation exercised its industry expertise for the STP-3 mission, providing adaptive and crucial support where it mattered most. — The pace of innovation for space is accelerating, driving the need for more agile and responsive solutions to advance the nation’s space missions. Staying ahead in this contested environment requires moving faster and evolving how mission success can be achieved—prioritizing mission-critical areas of highest need while allocating resources and time…

Space

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Space Test Program-3 (STP-3): Advancing Agility in the Space Enterprise
Space Test Program-3 (STP-3): Advancing Agility in the Space Enterprise
Space

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Published in Aerospace TechBlog

·Oct 17, 2022

GLINT: Advancing Space-based Laser Communication aboard a CubeSat

A team of engineers is advancing lasercom technology to meet the rising needs and speed of the space domain. — Increased activities in space require moving faster, lighter and with higher precision. While space communications have traditionally relied on transmitting information via radio waves, The Aerospace Corporation is facilitating laser communication (lasercom) research and development. Previously, two AeroCubes successfully transmitted data via lasercom systems for the first time — a…

Space

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GLINT: Advancing Space-based Laser Communication aboard a CubeSat
GLINT: Advancing Space-based Laser Communication aboard a CubeSat
Space

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