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Romania Leads Its First Private ESA Mission with CyberCUBE Launch

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A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the morning of 7 July, carrying a satellite roughly the size of a loaf of bread that will spend the next year probing how European spacecraft can be attacked. The payload, called CyberCUBE, is the first European Space Agency mission run […] This story continues at The Next Web

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The first mission of the European Space Agency is run entirely by a private company in Romania. CyberCUBE satellite has been placed in orbit from a SpaceX platform. The system will test ways in which future European satellites can be protected against cyber threats, increasingly common in recent years.

·Bucharest, Romania
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Much of our life depends on the daily choreography undertaken by thousands of space satellites that, from their journey through Earth orbit, collect information that allows us to navigate with GPS, carry out communications over long distances and even obtain critical information on Earth to, for example, study the evolution of the climate or see how the terrain has remained after a natural disaster. But what if someone 'hacked' these devices to …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched CyberCUBE, a mission aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity of European space systems through validation in [...]

·Madrid, Spain
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On July 7, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the CyberCUBE satellite into low-Earth orbit. This landmark achievement marked the first European Space Agency (ESA) mission to be fully implemented by a private Romanian company. Over the next year, the miniature satellite will serve as an orbital testbed for developing technologies to protect European space infrastructure... The post ESA's First Romanian Mission: CyberCUBE Satellite Suc…

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The launch into orbit of the satellite marks the beginning of a pioneering initiative at ESA, so that the Nigrán company designed the CubeSat 3U platform O artigo A galega Alén Space participates in a European mission to reinforce the cybersecurity of two public space systems first in Science.

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gciencia.com broke the news on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
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