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Space systems are critical assets and protecting them against cyberattacks is a paramount challenge that has received limited attention. In particular, it is fundamental to secure spacecraft communications by identifying and removing potential vulnerabilities in the implementations of space (communication) protocols, which could be remotely exploited by attackers. This work reports our preliminary experiences when fuzzing five open-source implementations of four space protocols using two approaches: grammar-based fuzzing and coverageguided fuzzing. To enable the fuzzing, we created grammars for the protocols and custom harnesses for the targets. Our fuzzing identified 11 vulnerabilities across four targets caused by typical memory-related bugs such as double-frees, out-of-bounds reads, and the use of uninitialized variables. We responsibly disclosed the vulnerabilities. To date, 5 vulnerabilities have been patched and 4 have been awarded CVE identifiers. Additionally, we discovered a discrepancy in how one target interprets a protocol standard, which we reported and has since been fixed.

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