A Security Risk Taxonomy for Commercial Space Missions
Gregory Falco, Nicolò Boschetti
Abstract
View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4241.vid Security risks and their associated incidents for commercial space systems could lead to mission failure. This paper describes an extensive database of ~2,000 space security incidents and proposes a taxonomy of security risks based on the compiled database. The taxonomy consists of commercial space risk categories including physical (kinetic, non-kinetic), digital (electromagnetic, cyber), organizational (production, management) and regulatory (legal, political) security risks. Each security risk category holds nested subcategories which ultimately are used as labels for the incidents in the database. The taxonomy and associated database can be used to characterize future risks of commercial space missions and promote a common language to engage in productive space security discussions.