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Cubedate: Securing Software Updates in Orbit for Low-Power Payloads Hosted on CubeSats

Francois-Xavier Molina
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Koen Zandberg
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Emmanuel Baccelli

Résumé

CubeSat design is facilitated by the increasing availability of open-source software in the domain, and a variety of low-cost hardware blueprints based on commodity microcontrollers. We attain the rock-bottom price to reach orbit as entities that design, launch and operate CubeSats started selling to multiple tenants tiny rack slots (typically 0,25U each) for low-power payloads that may be hosted on their CubeSat. The question arises of how to provide state-of-the-art security for software updates on a multi-tenant CubeSat, whereby mutual trust between tenants is limited. In this paper, we provide a casestudy: ThingSat, a low-power payload we designed, is currently hosted on a CubeSat orbiting at 500km altitude operated by a separate entity. We then design Cubedate, a framework for securing continuous deployment of software to be updated on orbiting multi-tenant CubeSats. We also provide a highly portable open-source implementation of Cubedate, based on the IoT operating system RIOT, which we evaluate experimentally.
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hal-03893509 , version 1 (11-12-2022)

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Didier Donsez, Olivier Alphand, Francois-Xavier Molina, Koen Zandberg, Emmanuel Baccelli. Cubedate: Securing Software Updates in Orbit for Low-Power Payloads Hosted on CubeSats. 2022. ⟨hal-03893509⟩
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