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REC-0001.08
ST0001Reconnaissance
sub-technique

Power

Parent: REC-0001

Description

Reconnaissance of the electrical power system (EPS) focuses on generation, storage, distribution, and autonomy. Useful details include solar array topology and SADA behavior, MPPT algorithms, array string voltages, eclipse depth assumptions, battery chemistry and configuration, BMS charge/discharge limits and thermal dependencies, PCDU architecture, load-shed priorities, latching current limiters, and survival power rules. Artifacts surface in EPS ICDs, acceptance test data, TVAC power margin reports, anomaly response procedures, and vendor manuals. Correlating these with attitude plans and payload schedules lets a threat actor infer when state-of-charge runs tight, which loads are shed first, and how fast recovery proceeds after a brownout or safing entry. Knowledge of housekeeping telemetry formats and rate caps helps identify blind spots where abusive load patterns or command sequences may evade detection.

Mappings

EU regulation articles

  • eu-space-actArt. 80(3)
    addresses
    moderate
    direct

    EPS topology, MPPT algorithms, BMS limits, and load-shed priorities are sensitive design artifacts that 80(3)'s confidentiality categorization must cover.

  • nis2-implAnnex 11.2.1
    addresses
    moderate
    derived

    Access-rights provisioning to EPS modelling artefacts, fault-protection trees and autonomy thresholds bounds who can reconstruct power-related leverage points.

  • nis2-implAnnex 12.1.1
    addresses
    moderate
    derived

    EPS topology, autonomy thresholds and battery configuration are engineering assets whose classification determines whether their exposure to recon is permitted by the asset framework.

ENISA controls

  • ENISA-STL-2025-03-sD.24-i01
    addresses
    moderate

    Information classification governs the protective marking of the EPS ICDs, TVAC power-margin reports, and BMS limits that REC-0001.08 collects.

Cross-reference controls

SPARTA countermeasures

Cite as SafeMode Space, REC-0001.08 (SPARTA v3.2).

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