Development of the Internet and other communication systems brought space much closer. On the one hand, the progress ensured space discoveries by thousands of amateur researchers, but on the other hand, it left spaceships wide open to hacker attacks threatening to disrupt costly missions. This round table discussion will be dedicated to the development of space technology in the digital era.Reports: The co-owner of Lin Industrial and resident of the Skolkovo space cluster will talk about real and ideal plans for space research in a variety of countries. Alexey Andreev, also known as Lexa and Mersey Shelley, is a Russian IT journalist, former editor-in-chief of the Webplanet web portal and other network projects. Alexey is the author of the cyberpunk novels "The Web" and "2048", full of that contain detailed predictions about our technological future. He received Russian and Ukrainian awards in literature, won three international haiku competitions (Japan). He currently works at Positive Technologies.