Aerospace Corp. sends a satellite to space as a target for its annual hack-a-thon

Moonlighter, the first hacking sandbox in space, reached the International Space Station Tuesday morning.

It will become a form of cybersecurity technology that allows good hackers to perform tests and identify methods that could help prevent bad hackers from taking control of satellites.Moonlighter, the first hacking sandbox in space, reached the International Space Station on Tuesday morning.

Aerospace Corp. is a nonprofit that operates a federally funded research and development center. It developed Moonlighter with Space Systems Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory. The satellite will be used duringpresented by the Air Force. This will be the first year finalists get to hack an actual satellite in space.

Moonlighter's fully reprogrammable payload computer behaves like a flight computer, which allows cybersecurity experiments to be repeatable, realistic and secure. Moonlighter also has a firewall to protect the actual satellite from the hackers.

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