Enabling Capabilities
Stellar Cyber Innovation Laboratory (SCIL)
Stellar Innovation and Integration Laboratory (I2L)
Stellar Innovation and Integration Laboratory (I2L)
A state-of-the-art cybersecurity innovation laboratory focused on the space domain delivers cutting-edge research across on-orbit platforms, resilient communications, and mission-critical ground segments. The lab enables rapid prototyping, digital twins, and adversarial testing to harden satellites, links, and control infrastructure against evolving threats while accelerating secure-by-design architectures. Through applied research, red/purple teaming, and operational collaboration, it provides end-to-end cyber resilience for modern space systems.
- End-to-end protection: Cyber resilience across on-orbit assets, communications links, and ground infrastructure.
- Rapid innovation: Fast prototyping and digital twin environments to test ideas before deployment.
- Realistic threat testing: Adversarial red/purple teaming against mission-relevant attack scenarios.
- Secure-by-design architectures: Built-in security patterns for next-generation space systems.
- Operational relevance: Close collaboration with operators to validate real-world mission impact.
- Resilient communications: Hardened links and protocols for contested or degraded environments.
- Accelerated transition: Clear pathways from research to fielded capabilities.
- Future-ready insights: Continuous analysis of emerging threats and technologies shaping the space domain.
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Stellar Innovation and Integration Laboratory (I2L)
Stellar Innovation and Integration Laboratory (I2L)
Stellar Innovation and Integration Laboratory (I2L)
What the I2L Delivers:
A vendor -agnostic environment uniquely positioned to serve AFGSC's most demanding mission requirements — from unclassified evaluation through classified operational deployment.
- Vendor-Agnostic Evaluation: Independent, objective technology assessment not tied to any commercial vendor — ensuring mission-driven selection of the best available solutions.
- Proximity to BAFB & AFGSC: Direct operational feedback loop with AFGSC and nuclear deterrence mission sets — minutes from the headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command.
- Rapid Prototyping Pipeline: Proven technologies feed directly into operational ResNet deployments — compressing the lab-to-field timeline significantly.
- Unclassified to Classified Path: Structured pathway from CUI handling to classified operations via RMF documentation — supporting the full authorization spectrum.
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BPG for Logging Events of Space Vehicle Sub-Systems
Summary
Effective logging within the subsystems of a Space Vehicle (SV) is crucial for enabling operators to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues, while also enhancing the overall security posture of the space system. Resources such as the European Space Agency’s Space Shield and Aerospace Corporation’s SPARTA outline tactics, techniques, and procedures that can exploit known vulnerabilities in space vehicles and their supporting architecture. However, there is a gap in resources that specifically guide space-based organizations on how to be alerted when these types of attacks occur, particularly onboard an on-orbit space vehicle.
This product, developed by Stephenson Stellar Corporation, aims to serve as a guideline for what should be evaluated and logged within each space vehicle subsystem. This guide can be applied to improving the posture of operational SVs, but is most beneficial when used during the design phase. Since each SV will have unique designs and differing capabilities or payloads, this guideline is intended as a starting point for logging best practices that can enhance the SV’s ability to detect anomalous cyber activity. These guidelines should be considered (where applicable) and used to help space organizations define their overall computer network defense strategy and cyber protection measures for operational on-orbit space vehicles.
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Space Vehicle Logging Best Practices Distro_A (.xlsx)
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