SafeKey LabCybersecurity for satellites
Keep your satellites yours.
Satellites are getting smarter, and so are the people trying to hijack them. SafeKey Lab is one platform that tests your spacecraft, detects attacks as they happen, and gives you a clear record of what happened.
Two jobs, one platform
The satellites you defend should survive how you would attack them.
Most security vendors in space pick a side. They either help you attack or help you defend. We think that is backwards. The space between offense and defense is where attackers actually live, so we built one platform that handles both and keeps the same record for both.
Red Team
Attack your own spacecraft, on your terms.
Run the same techniques real attackers will reach for: command injection, telemetry spoofing, link manipulation, autonomy abuse. Everything is authorized, logged, and reversible, so you can push hard without putting the bird at risk.
Blue Team
Detection that holds up in real time.
Onboard detection for hijack attempts, false data, and autonomy going off the rails. Your operators get clear evidence at the moment it matters, not a forensic report a week later.
One platform · Both sides · One shared record
The Platform
Attack, detect, and score every satellite you fly.
SafeKey is a red and blue team for spacecraft, run by the people who fly them. Teams use it to test their satellites against the SPARTA framework, produce evidence reviewers actually trust, and keep checking readiness from integration all the way through end of life.
Adversary Emulation
Attack
Run your satellite against the same playbook a real attacker would use. Command injection, telemetry spoofing, link manipulation, autonomy abuse. Everything maps cleanly to the SPARTA framework, so the results travel with the spacecraft.
Onboard Detection
Detect
Catch hijack attempts, spoofed telemetry, false data, and autonomy going off the rails while it is still happening. SafeKey watches the spacecraft in real time and tells your operators what is wrong, in language they already speak.
Readiness Scoring
Score
Every run produces a readable scorecard, mapped to SPARTA, that engineers and program leads can both work from. It is the evidence you need to show that a satellite is ready to fly, not just a promise that it is.
Sectors
Space leads. Defense and commercial on the same platform.
Commercial operators, defense space programs, and satellite manufacturers all face the same problem on orbit: hostile, automated behavior they cannot fully predict. We lead with space, and the same architecture stretches across the rest of the customer base.
Sector 01 · Government space
Government space programs
Built for Space Force, NRO, SDA, and prime-integrator programs to run as an independent red and blue layer. Aligned to SPARTA from day one, so the work plugs into the frameworks reviewers already use.
Defense →
Sector 02 · Commercial Space
Constellation operators
Comms, EO, and PNT operators use SafeKey to check that a spacecraft is ready before launch, and to keep checking the fleet once it is up.
Commercial →
Sector 03 · Manufacturers
Satellite builders and primes
Bus manufacturers and primes ship SafeKey-evaluated platforms, so their customers and reviewers have an outside score they can rely on instead of taking the OEM at their word.
Manufacturers →
Track Record
Validated in the lab. Demonstrated in the field.
We do not ask customers to take our word for any of this. SafeKey has been tested against real captured satellite RF in our own ground station, and put in the hands of a U.S. Army unit through field exercises.
Ground Station / RF
Tested at our Colorado Springs ground station
- Adversary scenarios replayed through our stack against real captured satellite RF and a CubeSat emulator modeled on the MITRE NERVE reference design.
- Scored against SPARTA, the recognized space threat framework.
- Real-RF scorecard, published in full: 3 techniques fully detected, 2 partial, 3 not yet detected, 4 correct holds — not just a headline.
In the Field
Exercised with a military unit
- Operated by service members through multiple field exercises, no contractor on the keyboard.
- Demonstrated to senior military leadership.
- Formal research agreement signed on our side, waiting on government execution.
Posture
Built for how this industry actually buys.
We did not bolt compliance on at the end. SafeKey Lab was designed from day one for the export-controlled, audited environment our customers actually work in.
Export control
USML Cat XI scope. DDTC registration in progress.
Supply chain
Section 889 review underway.
Environmental
On the MIL-STD-810H pathway.
EMI and EMC
On the MIL-STD-461G pathway.
Cybersecurity
CMMC L2 self-assessed (C3PAO pending). IL5 inherited from GCP Assured Workloads. ATO with a 3PAO in progress.
Intellectual property
Patents pending across multiple filings.
The Company
Built by people who lived the problem.
SafeKey was started by U.S. Army veterans who built and fielded counter-autonomy systems with operational units, then turned the same architecture toward the spacecraft.
Founder & CEO
Sukin Yang
Cornell alum and U.S. Army veteran. While serving overseas, he triaged a large population of service members and their families and simultaneously supported operational missions. After the Army, he built data pipelines scaling 30 years of real estate records, built an AI diagnosis tool at Weill Cornell Medicine that scans MRI to detect breast cancer, and worked on RF and satellite engineering at Cornell Bowers. He built the original counter-autonomy platform end to end and is the inventor on the pending patents behind SafeKey's detection and red/blue team work.
Military Integration
Chance LeBlanc
U.S. Army veteran with experience bridging operational units and emerging technology. Runs government deployments and integration. The reason the system actually got into operators' hands in the field.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your spacecraft.
Whether you fly one satellite or a constellation, build them, or buy them, we would like to hear from you. Drop us a line and we will get back to you within two business days.
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