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Roger Patrick

Roger Patrick

Director of Sales and Business Development at TERMA, specializing in spacecraft control systems and ground segment space operations

Jul 23, 2026

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LEO constellations generally require quite a lot of assets, not just the assets in space, but the assets on the ground, and the system is, as with any system, only as strong as its weakest link.
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And the problem is that on the ground is where the weaknesses could be.
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People talk a lot about satellite jamming, signal spoofing, which are real threats, but the real one is the terrestrial infrastructure, which has a lot of software in it and is an easy target for malicious activities.
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For instance, you don't have to break the spacecraft encryption to do serious damage.
2:02
You can pollute a software delivery chain.
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You can abuse user access rights and a number of other things, which are very similar to the threats on other terrestrial systems.

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7:21
Coming back to Zero Trust in space, can you explain that for our audience what Zero Trust in that context mean, and is that real?

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