US 11,689,509 B2
Satellite operations with secure enclave for secure hosted payload operations
Robert J. Winig, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US); and Yi-Feng J. Chen, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,992.
Prior Publication US 2023/0080153 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 63/0428 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for payload operations, the method comprising:
receiving, by a command receiver on a vehicle, encrypted host commands, which are host commands encrypted by a host spacecraft operations center (SOC) utilizing a host communication security (COMSEC) variety;
decrypting, by a host communication security module on the vehicle, the encrypted host commands by utilizing the host COMSEC variety to produce unencrypted host commands;
reconfiguring a host payload on the vehicle according to the unencrypted host commands;
encrypting, by the host communication security module, unencrypted host payload telemetry by utilizing the host COMSEC variety to produce encrypted host payload telemetry;
transmitting, by a telemetry transmitter on the vehicle, the encrypted host payload telemetry to the host SOC, which decrypts the encrypted host payload telemetry by utilizing the host COMSEC variety to produce the unencrypted host payload telemetry;
receiving, by a payload antenna on the vehicle, encrypted hosted commands, which are hosted commands encrypted by a secure enclave of the host SOC by utilizing a hosted COMSEC variety;
decrypting, by a hosted communication security module on the vehicle, the encrypted hosted commands by utilizing the hosted COMSEC variety to produce unencrypted hosted commands;
reconfiguring a hosted payload on the vehicle according to the unencrypted hosted commands;
encrypting, by the hosted communication security module, unencrypted hosted payload telemetry by utilizing the hosted COMSEC variety to produce encrypted hosted payload telemetry; and
transmitting, by the payload antenna, host payload data, hosted payload data, and the encrypted hosted telemetry, which is decrypted by the secure enclave of the host SOC by utilizing the hosted COMSEC variety to produce the unencrypted hosted telemetry.