is 20 year old tech hackable ? is not sourcable. what is done to satellites is not really possible to source, people need to work. and even bull is considered secret, proprietary etc....

for threat model: hybrid war is "new". " attacking infrastructure was considered war, full stop " this changed for some reason.

american corporation have 4 pictures of "earth" everyday, in database, starting from 1996... and still even today, you can point antenna up and capture geostationary satellite pictures, not in that resolution tho. ( NOAA / old russian meteo satellites - this was not in threat model. source is point antenna up)

im not talking about things like FLTSATCOM 7 and FLTSATCOM 8 which are known and covered by news.

im not confused about what is telemetry, control, data, transponder, etc

most nonmainstream things / themes are not "googleable". because hybrid war. hobbysite from 20 years ago - cqham.ru has some articles about "downloading" nonencrypted traffic from satellites with for todays standard, primitive equipment