ESA SPACE-SHIELD
T2049

Spacecraft Jamming

Description

If the victim uses a free space (over the air) communication, it can be threatened by jamming attacks. An attacker can perform a Denial of Service (DoS) attack to limit or block the service availability through RF jamming. For Proximity-1 jamming becomes difficult, because of high distance from Earth (upload) and the use of commercial frequencies (download jamming would affect a lot of other terrestrial links). Jamming of the ranging signal could lead to the total loss of ranging data, and potential navigation errors.

Mapped SPARTA techniques

3 techniques

  • EX-0016JammingST0004
    addresses
    high

    T2049 'Spacecraft Jamming' is the direct cross-framework counterpart of EX-0016 Jamming for the uplink/spacecraft-receiver subset — both describe RF jamming attacks limiting or blocking service availability.

  • EX-0016.01Uplink JammingST0004
    addresses
    high

    T2049 'Spacecraft Jamming' is specifically about jamming the spacecraft's free-space communication — direct match to EX-0016.01 Uplink Jamming (transmitter targets the spacecraft's uplink receive antenna).

  • T2049 covers free-space RF jamming — applies to EX-0016.03 PNT Jamming (raising the noise floor in GNSS bands at the spacecraft's receive antenna). SPACE-SHIELD has no PNT-jamming-specific sub-technique.

Cite as SafeMode Space, space-shield T2049.

Built 2026-07-25 from 216 techniques, 334 regulation articles, 125 ENISA controls, 2,610 framework controls, and 90 countermeasures.