{"id":418839,"date":"2025-12-02T05:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418839\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:17","slug":"spire-to-build-eight-satellites-for-deloittes-on-orbit-cybersecurity-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418839\/","title":{"rendered":"Spire to build eight satellites for Deloitte\u2019s on-orbit cybersecurity program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Spire Global has secured a contract from Deloitte to design, build and operate eight satellites that will support the consulting firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/deloittes-payloads-will-test-whether-satellites-can-defend-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push into on-orbit cybersecurity<\/a>, the companies said Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Spire Global, a space-based data and satellite services company, will supply the spacecraft for Deloitte\u2019s planned constellation carrying Silent Shield, an intrusion-detection payload built to spot cyber threats targeting satellites. The satellites will also host advanced radio-frequency and geolocation payloads to support Deloitte\u2019s commercial and government clients.<\/p>\n<p>The deal expands a partnership that began earlier this year, when Deloitte launched Deloitte-1 on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-13 rideshare mission. Spire worked with Deloitte to validate Silent Shield on that spacecraft, which serves as the first node in what Deloitte aims to grow into a nine-satellite cyber defense testbed in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpire\u2019s integrated technology gives us a powerful and relevant platform to engineer, test, validate and refine our on-orbit cyber solutions,\u201d Brett Loubert, leader of Deloitte\u2019s U.S. Space practice, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Satellite cyber defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deloitte is betting that real cybersecurity testing for space systems requires operating in orbit, not just in ground stations. A widening set of cyber risks threaten satellites as they become more networked and more numerous.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Shield includes two versions of Deloitte\u2019s intrusion-detection system: A hardware payload, flying on Deloitte-1 and planned for the final satellites in the series, operates out-of-band and only ingests telemetry. By design, it cannot send commands to the spacecraft, limiting the chance that a compromised payload could be used as a bridge to attack the satellite itself.<\/p>\n<p>And a \u201cmassless\u201d software-only payload is intended for legacy satellites or platforms that cannot accept new hardware. The software package can run intermittently to meet the power constraints typical of older spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte said the eight new satellites will launch in clusters over the next 18 months, forming a constellation to test cyber defenses, generate operational data and model how attacks could move laterally across multiple spacecraft \u2014 an emerging concern as more satellite networks rely on inter-satellite links and shared ground architectures.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also using data from Deloitte-1 to train AI models for future autonomous cyber responses in orbit, a capability that industry executives say will become more important as spacecraft grow more software-defined.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Spire Global has secured a contract from Deloitte to design, build and operate eight satellites that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[734,35328,159,16988,783,25435,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-418839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-cybersecurity","9":"tag-deloitte","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-sn","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spire","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648412012921103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}