Stijn Ilsen
Stijn Ilsen is an aerospace engineer since 2004. He worked on several European and Belgian satellite missions, from test engineer to Flight Operations Director, leading a team of ~50 people during the successful launch to the PROBA-3 satellites in December 2024. He gives about 30 lectures a year for various organizations and has done 2 TEDx talks. He wrote 2 children’s books and is now preparing a book about the current state of spaceflight.
Session
Space systems typically follow a long development and implementation path. Once in space, the systems go through a long operational lifetime with very limited capacity to perform updates to hardware and software. With cybersecurity threats evolving very rapidly, this poses a major challenge to space system design and operations. In parallel, in the current geo-political context, aerospace and defense companies are increasingly under attack.