Pre-operational Vectors

Abstract

Now that we have covered a wide range of threats to the space vehicle (SV) and the mission on board, we need to understand the vectors from which those threats will manifest themselves. The threats we discussed were entirely purposeful when performed from the cyber domain by a malicious actor. This was not the case for many of the non-cyber examples where some may have been purposefully carried out, but many others were bad happenstance or a result of environmental and other factors of space system operation.