In the European new security landscape, ground segments increasingly appear as potential “new targets” for “new threats”, especially the hybrid ones (e.g. cyber-physical). A physical/cyber-attack to their installations or communication networks, respectively, would cause debilitating impact on public safety and security of European citizens and affect also other European critical infrastructure. On the one hand, a physical attack on a space ground segment makes the distribution of satellite data problematic and, on the other hand, a cyber-attack in its data storage, access and exchange affects not only the reliability of space data, but also their FAIR standards: findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.
Current approaches do not fully exploit the recent advances in surveillance mechanisms with robotic technologies and AI. Moreover, the centralised storage of large streams of space data may result to vulnerable system design, when authentication and single sign on (SSO) is not ensured.