"ROSAT"- German Satellite crash on the Earth !!!!!! | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1277141 United States 02/27/2011 05:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Allegations of cyber-attacks causing the failure Ten years later in 2008, NASA investigators were reported to have found that the ROSAT failure was linked to a cyber-intrusion at Goddard Space Flight Center.... The root of this allegation is a 1999 advisory report by Thomas Talleur, senior investigator for cyber-security at NASA. This advisory is reported to describe a series of attacks from Russia that reached computers in the X-ray Astrophysics Section (i.e. ROSAT's) at Goddard, and took control of computers used for the control of satellies, not just a passive "snooping" attack. The advisory stated: "Hostile activities compromised [NASA] computer systems that directly and indirectly deal with the design, testing, and transferring of satellite package command-and-control codes." The advisory is further reported as claiming that the ROSAT incident was "coincident with the intrusion" and that, "Operational characteristics and commanding of the ROSAT were sufficiently similar to other space assets to provide intruders with valuable information about how such platforms are commanded". Without public access to the advisory, it is obviously impossible to comment in detail. However it does seem to describe a real intrusion; there is a plausible "no attack" explanation for ROSAT's failure, and the report is claimed to link the two incidents as no more than "coincident". IT security remains a significant issue for NASA, other systems including the Earth Observing System having also been attacked. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1724975 Australia 09/22/2011 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "It seems likely that UARS will avoid areas inhabited by humans, but the experience will be something of a dress rehearsal for a greater danger coming in November. A German satellite telescope called Rosat is expected to re-enter with much bigger pieces, including a very large lens, still intact." [link to www.bbc.co.uk] |
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