Enhancing Space Cyber Resilience through Immersive Gamified Scenarios
Time: 11:35 - 12:45 AEST
Room: C4.4
Join our workshop and operate your own simulated spacecraft! Face cyber threats, strategize in real-time, and defend critical space assets using digital twin simulations. Strengthen your mission resilience through this unique, hands-on experience!
Organizers and Facilitators
Zendir’s interactive workshop will be unlike any other at IAC this year. Instead of a presentation or panel, you’ll be logging into the operator terminal of Zendir’s digital twin to compete in an immersive space-cyber capture-the-flag competition, managing a live satellite in a high-pressure environment.
While the mission is simple – detect and respond to space-cyber anomalies before they jeopardise your assets – the challenge is anything but. As a team of operators, you’ll need to complete mission objectives while diagnosing anomalies and devising coordinated responses in real-time to protect your mission.
It’s a fast-paced experience that will be sure to elevate your heart rate. Ready to level up?
The scenario
Within 3 orbits at 8x speed, participants must:
- Counter a jamming event degrading satellite communications
- Recover system health to capture imagery
- Downlink mission results across a global ground station network.
But this challenge isn’t a simple list of tasks to complete. While you’re responding to each of these anomalies, you’ll need to maintain situational awareness to unlock the hidden clues needed to solve the final Icarus challenge.
If your team can collaborate effectively to protect your mission through each challenge, you might even clinch the title of IAC 2025’s Zendir champions!
Who it is for
This challenge is open to all IAC attendees regardless of technical background. However we design our challenges to be most relevant to:
- Defence operators
- Space agencies
- Commercial satellite providers
- Academic training programs.
How it works
- 12 teams in total; facilitators will assign teams at the start.
- Zendir’s expert facilitators will be on hand to provide guidance throughout the competition.
- There is no pre-registration! So be sure to get there on time (or early!)