Information technology in Roscosmos

2022: DDoS attacks that shut down the Roscosmos website

On June 29, 2022, the Roscosmos website stopped working after a massive DDoS attack, which began after the state corporation published images of decision centers of several NATO member countries. As noted in Roskosmos, the attack on the official resource of the company was made from Yekaterinburg.

As of 12:00 Moscow time on June 29, 2022, the Roscosmos website did not work, as the TAdviser journalist was convinced.

The Roscosmos website went offline after a massive DDoS attack, which began after the publication of pictures of decision centers

The day before, on June 28, 2022, "Roscosmos published pictures and coordinates of decision-making centers in the member countries of the alliance on the eve of the NATO summit in Madrid. The images were taken by the Resource-P space satellite, the centers are located in Madrid, Berlin, London, Washington and Brussels.

While representatives of 30 countries of the alliance, as well as partners and candidates, will deal with the strategic concept until 2030, Roskosmos publishes satellite photographs of the summit venue and those very decision-making centers supporting Ukrainian nationalists, the state corporation said.

On February 26, 2022, among other Russian companies, Roscosmos reported a DDoS attack by foreign hackers. On March 4, 2022, it was reported that the Roscosmos security system recorded a decrease in the intensity of cyber attacks from Ukrainian territory to the infrastructure of the company and its enterprises. On April 11, 2022, the state corporation announced more frequent attacks on its website.

Roscosmos technical specialists recorded increased activity of foreign hackers trying to hack the website of the state corporation, - said then the head of the press service of the state corporation Dmitry Strugovets, assuring that the specialists "successfully repel attacks on the site."[1]

2021

Roscosmos begins to use virtual reality when creating technology

In May 2021, Roskosmos announced the upcoming use of virtual reality in the production of equipment. It is assumed that such a technology will be used by designers for remote collaboration. Read more here.

Roscosmos translates the design of rocket and space complexes completely into digital form

On March 12, 2021, Roscosmos announced the approval of a series of standards governing the work with electronic technical documentation. Thanks to this initiative, the state corporation intends to translate the design of promising rocket and space complexes fully into digital form, as well as ensure the creation of their digital counterparts.

The implementation of this set of standards forms uniform requirements for the design of Roscosmos products, but also for our entire cooperation, and these are more than a thousand organizations. This will create a reliable foundation for digitalization of the entire industry, "said Gennady Abramenkov, director of the Roscosmos certification, standardization and licensing department.

Roscosmos is going to completely translate the design of rocket and space complexes into digital form

As Konstantin Shadrin, director of the digital development department of Roscosmos, explained, the standards determine the unification of products, including within information systems, so the adoption of these standards should serve as the basis for using unified solutions and methods when issuing electronic technical documentation.

According to Shadrin, the approval of a series of standards that establish uniform requirements for the process of developing rocket and space technology in electronic form summed up the discussions that have long been held at various sites regarding the correct presentation of the developed electronic documentation.

Roscosmos emphasized that the basic principles laid down in the set of standards were worked out and showed their effectiveness in the development of the world's most powerful liquid-propellant rocket engine in digital form - the RD-171MV for the first stage of the promising Soyuz-5 launch vehicle and the super-heavy rocket. "Yenisei

Of course, today we have opened a new page in the development of digital design approaches... Standardization is a symbiosis of the accumulated experience and scientific and technical knowledge gained in the process of work, "Shadrin emphasized.[2]

2020

Roscosmos and the Ministry of Natural Resources agreed on space monitoring of forests, waste management and ecology

On October 26, 2020, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia and Roscosmos announced the creation of a digital space monitoring system. It is designed to effectively control forest management, waste management and environmental control using remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing) from space. Read more here.

Large-scale digital transformation in Roskosmos

At the end of May 2020, it became known about the beginning of a large-scale digital transformation in Roscosmos. This was announced by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at the first industry conference within the framework of the Digital Roscosmos program.

At this video meeting with the participation of heads of major subsidiaries, IT and  digital development units  , strategic and innovative development units of organizations, as well as those responsible for the commercialization of products, services and services of enterprises of the state corporation, Rogozin listed a number of areas of digitalization that are priority for the development and modernization of the rocket and space industry:

Rogozin told about start of large-scale digital transformation of Roskosmos

• Create a unified manufacturing and product lifecycle management information space
• digital design;
• Application of mathematical modeling and supercomputer computing technologies within the framework of product lifecycle management
• transformation of the control system based on effective data handling mechanisms;
• development of competencies;
• increased involvement of personnel in the implementation of the digital transformation process;
• bringing fundamentally new digital products and services to market.

The strategy for the digital development of the Russian rocket and space industry has been adopted for five years and for the future until 2030 . It formulates key areas of development, for each of them centers of competence will be created in the industry.

The space trend in the world is not just fashion, it is a vital necessity,  "Dmitry Rogozin emphasized. In addition to the fact that space - communication, science, navigation, environmental protection  , etc. - space activity is an indispensable condition for political socialization. She reports a drive  in the economy,  in politics, and not only among the old members of the space club.[3]

Create an IT Integrator

At the end of May 2020, Roscosmos announced the creation of an industry IT integrator - LLC RK-Zyfra. This company is entrusted with the functions of developing, implementing, supporting and constantly improving information technologies, creating and commercializing digital products and services, as well as building a reliable, effective and secure IT infrastructure for the needs of state corporation organizations. Read more here.

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