{"id":662269,"date":"2025-12-30T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:33:11","slug":"europe-ramps-up-security-of-satellites-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662269\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe ramps up security of satellites \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, satellite infrastructure was treated by policymakers as a technical utility rather than a strategic asset. That changed in 2022, when a cyberattack on the Viasat satellite network<\/a> coincided with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Satellites have since become popular targets for interference, espionage and disruption. The European Commission in June warned that space was becoming \u201cmore contested,\u201d flagging increasing cyberattacks and attempts at electronic interference targeting satellites and ground stations. Germany <\/a>and the United Kingdom warned earlier this year of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which are regularly spotted spying on their satellites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

EU governments are now racing to boost their resilience and reduce reliance on foreign technology, both through regulations like the new Space Act and investments in critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The threat is crystal clear in Greenland, Laurynas Ma\u010diulis, the chief executive officer of Astrolight, said. \u201cThe problem today is that around 80 percent of all the [space data] traffic is downlinked to a single location in Svalbard, which is an island shared between different countries, including Russia,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s main Arctic ground station sits in Svalbard and supports both the navigation systems of Galileo and Copernicus. While the location is strategic, it is also extremely sensitive due to nearby Russian and Chinese activities. Crucially, the station relies on a single undersea cable to connect to the internet, which has been damaged several times.<\/p>\n

“In case of intentional or unintentional damage of this cable, you lose access to most of the geo-intelligence satellites, which is, of course, very critical. So our aim is to deploy a complementary satellite ground station up in Greenland,” Ma\u010diulis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, satellite infrastructure was treated by policymakers as a technical utility rather than a strategic asset. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[356,1395,2001,2437,3835,7694,13508,3457,30825,2814,473,295,2002,1824,366,31865,806,6084,2597,8720,332,5549,2823,70,811,1199,413,169818,23065,51417,53,16,657,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-662269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-aerospace","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-communications","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-connectivity","13":"tag-critical-infrastructure","14":"tag-cyber-warfare","15":"tag-cybersecurity","16":"tag-cybersecurity-and-data-protection","17":"tag-data","18":"tag-defense","19":"tag-elon-musk","20":"tag-espionage","21":"tag-germany","22":"tag-greenland","23":"tag-hybrid-threats","24":"tag-industry","25":"tag-infrastructure","26":"tag-military","27":"tag-resilience","28":"tag-russia","29":"tag-safety","30":"tag-satellites","31":"tag-science","32":"tag-security","33":"tag-services","34":"tag-space","35":"tag-space-launchers","36":"tag-spectrum","37":"tag-spying","38":"tag-technology","39":"tag-uk","40":"tag-ukraine","41":"tag-united-kingdom","42":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115808069460655171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}