Mission Four is the first flight where the platform acts on you. A shorter, faster run over five ground stations spread across the Pacific and the Americas, with events firing while you work. Several things go wrong and they do not all have the same cause, which is the whole exercise: detect, then confirm, because an alert is not an incident.

Three things go wrong on this flight and they do not share a cause. Two are an adversary and one is a part that failed on its own. An alert is a hypothesis; an incident is a confirmed threat, and the gap between them is where this mission is won or lost. Click a role to see what it holds this mission.

MISSION LEADFocus: confirm, then sort.▪ SELECTEDSATELLITE OPERATIONSFocus: navigation and telemetry integrity.▸ WHAT IT HOLDSPAYLOAD OPERATIONSFocus: deliver, and report the fault.▸ WHAT IT HOLDS

▷ MISSION LEAD

You confirm, and you separate. Not everything that broke was broken by somebody.

Focus: confirm, then sort.

• · Judge which alert is a natural hardware fault rather than adversary activity
• · Decide which alerts belong in the cyber detection report to command leadership
• · Log the reaction-wheel fault as a hardware issue, separate from the cyber report
• · Sign every escalation

Mission Three taught you the discriminator with time to think. Mission Four asks for it live, with several things wrong at once and a clock running. Three tests settle almost every case, and they run in seconds. Click a step for the reasoning behind it.

Zendir, the digital twin and mission simulation platform Kestrel procured, replicates your satellite operations center. Everything you rehearsed here you now do for real inside it: one mission objective and ten scored questions. The ten questions land on the three tests you just walked. Run it in three steps: take your assigned consoles, fly the one objective and answer the ten questions in platform where they are scored, then note the score and come back here for the debrief. Your facilitator provides Zendir access, and two things must be true before you fly.

Zendir scored your mission out of 100 toward the Top SCOR Team standings. Note where you landed, then run the debrief while it is fresh. Work these three questions in order; the last one is the one that becomes an engineering update in the quarterly SCOR exercise.