Previously, launched satellites were not designed with the necessary resource capacity or safety protocols to integrate essential Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). This paper proposes the use of Rust to develop a statistics-based IDS, leveraging the language’s fast, efficient, and memory-safe attributes. The paper begins by providing an overview of cybersecurity threats to space infrastructure, introducing the fundamentals of intrusion detection, and outlining the architecture of space systems as background knowledge. It then details the proposed methodology for using Rust to build a statistics-based IDS. By comparing this approach with traditional methods, such as Python’s pandas, the paper aims to evaluate Rust’s speed and efficiency, advocating for its adoption in the development of more secure space systems.