[AdamJacobMuller]

I wonder what they do for out of band on satellites.

It's not like you can have a tech go out and reboot it or reinstall windows.

[lxgr]

I bet they have some pretty robust hardware watchdogs that allow rebooting, booting from firmware OTA etc. in case of local data corruption.

Here's a great talk on roughly this topic: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-yourself-a-satellite-rec...

[cyanydeez]

Their space infra is all disposable. Its GUGD.

[lxgr]

Each individual satellite, yes. But killing all of them at the same time, e.g. due to a bad software or configuration update, might be the end of the company.

[cyanydeez]

yeah, that would be an interesting dillema. Lucky for us, they technically arn't designed to be anything but disposable, so they'll fall from the heavens eventually.