Season 5 Episode 10 - Hacking In The Sky With Diamonds, Part 2

Hacking the Gibson

When a manmade satellite is whizzing through space at 11,000 kph, sending up a repair team to kick the tires is a non-starter. Ground-based mission crews can get around this by using virtual environments to simulate satellite software, hardware, and even the physics of being on orbit. And, there’s hardly ever been a useful computing tool that hackers couldn’t turn into a vector for a cyberattack.