AI vulnerabilities to space pirates: Cyberattacks in space can threaten life on Earth

Cyberattacks on satellites have occurred since the 1980s, but the global wake-up alarm went off only a couple of years ago.

If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity is largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.