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I wonder what they do for out of band on satellites.

It's not like you can have a tech go out and reboot it or reinstall windows.

I bet they have some pretty robust hardware watchdogs that allow rebooting, booting from firmware OTA etc. in case of local data corruption.

Here's a great talk on roughly this topic: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-rec...

Their space infra is all disposable. Its GUGD.

Each individual satellite, yes. But killing all of them at the same time, e.g. due to a bad software or configuration update, might be the end of the company.

yeah, that would be an interesting dillema. Lucky for us, they technically arn't designed to be anything but disposable, so they'll fall from the heavens eventually.

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