AMOS 2021 DAY ONE | SSA Policy Forum - Lessons Learned from Recent Satellite Servicing Missions

SSA POLICY FORUM | Lessons Learned from Recent Satellite Servicing Missions

In April 2020, the first commercial satellite servicing mission successfully docked with a satellite above GEO, followed by the second docking in GEO in March 2021; as well, there is a planned orbital debris removal demonstration in LEO in mid-2021. This panel will discuss how existing SSA capabilities were able to monitor and support these recent and planned satellite servicing missions and the lessons learned for conducting future servicing missions and future SSA requirements.

Moderated by:
- Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning, Secure World Foundation

Panelists:
- Joseph Anderson, Vice President of Operations & Business Development, SpaceLogistics
- Ralph Dinsley, Executive Director, Northern Space & Security Ltd.
- Mike Lindsay, Chief Technology Officer, Astroscale
- Lt Col Alfred Maynard, Commander, 20th Space Control Squadron, United States Space Force

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For more than 20 years, Maui’s AMOS conference has been the nation’s leading technical conference on space situational/domain awareness — the science of observing, tracking, and predicting the behavior of objects in Earth’s orbit.

Bringing together policymakers and experts from the private sector, academia, the military, and government agencies, the AMOS (Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies) conference attracts papers and presentations from the world’s foremost scientists working in the near-space arena. Programming includes technical sessions, keynote speakers, policy forums, and technical short courses on topics ranging from space law and collision avoidance, to space debris and the use of machine learning in SSA. The conference also features poster presentations, networking rooms, and opportunities for students and young professionals, including the EMER-GEN® program.