The annual Hack-A-Sat contest, sponsored by the Space Force and Air Force Research Laboratory to help improve the cybersecurity of Defense Department satellites, literally got real this year — with Italy’s mHACKeroni beating out five international teams of cyber researchers vying to take control of a live, in orbit satellite.

“We are so proud of the entire Hack-A-Sat effort and particularly the development of Moonlighter as the first and only hacking sandbox in space,” said Col. Neal Roach, director of Engineering and Integration for Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power at Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), in a press release today announcing the prize winners.