Romania leads its first private ESA mission with CyberCUBE launch
THE SO WHAT
CyberCUBE—a loaf-of-bread satellite launched on Falcon 9 to probe how European spacecraft can be attacked—shows cyber is now a first-class design concern in orbit, not an afterthought. Space operators should be budgeting for security testing and in-orbit resilience the same way they budget for radiation and debris risk.
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