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Sep 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Good morning from the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference for three days of talks on space situational awareness topics. First up: Lt. Gen. Michael A. Guetlein of Space Systems Command. #AMOSCon
Lt. Gen. Guetlein: the threat is only getting worse in space, citing activities by China and Russia; also “closely monitoring” efforts by Iran and North Korea. #AMOSCon
Guetlein: unprecedented unity of effort on national security space, within the DOD/IC, with industry and with international partners.
Guetlein: warfighter agrees they cannot win without space. Space domain awareness is foundational. #AMOSCon
Guetlein: need to better exploit what we have, buy what we can from industry, and only build what we must.

On buy what we can, services must be commercially available. Not the case if I pay you to develop it. #AMOSCon
Guetlein also talks up tactically responsive space, including the upcoming Victus Nox mission, with a 24-hour callup. Industry has proven that “we have gotten to tactically responsive space.” #AMOSCon

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Sep 29
NASA telecon underway. Thomas Zurbuchen says SpaceX approached NASA a few months to see if a commercial crew vehicle could help reboots Hubble. Announcing we’ve signed a Space Act Agreement to look at that.
Reboost, not reboots, of course.
Patrick Crouse, HST project manager, notes Hubble’s orbit has decayed from 380 to 335 miles. But spacecraft is doing great and could remain operational until late this decade.
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Sep 28
People think SSA will be the be-all, end-all of for verification of any space security treaty, says Almudena Azcarate Ortega of UNIDIR on an #AMOSCon panel. But, not everything can be monitored at all times by all states. SSA a useful tool, but not the only one.
Doug Hendrix of ExoAnalytic, a company that monitors satellites in the GEO belt: most of a satellite’s life is boring, but monitoring continuously we find interesting things like breakups. #AMOSCon
Mick Gleason, Aerospace Corp.: not enough for countries to comply with norms of behavior in space; must also be confident to call out bad behavior. Only 12 countries condemned Russian ASAT last year. #AMOSCon
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Sep 26
Post-impact briefing about to start on NASA TV.
Project team confirms their final estimate was an accuracy of 17 meters from the center of the pixels. Some additional analysis to do to calculate exact impact point.
“Earthlings should sleep better at night” knowing we have demonstrated a planetary defense technique, says APL’s Elena Adams. “Definitely I will.”
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Sep 13
Big launch panel coming up at #WSBW, with executives from Arianespace, Blue Origin, ILS, MHI, SpaceX and ULA.
SpaceX’s Tom Ochinero: trying to get to a little over 60 launches this year, and 100 next year. Includes 6 Falcon Heavy launches in next 12 months.
Tiphaine Louradour, ILS: both the US and Russian governments could choose to end ILS if they chose, but we believe they recognize this venture has value. (But who will buy Proton launches these days?)
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Sep 12
In a #WSBW finance panel, Peter Cannito of Redwire Space says a drop in valuations of space companies “creates an opportunity for companies like ours” that has acquired such companies in the past.
Vaibhav Lohiya, Deutsche Bank Securities: consolidation for the sector is good; helps companies reduce and rationalize capital expenditures. Also growing interest in vertical integration to secure their supply chains. #WSBW
Lohiya, on rumors of an SES-Intelsat merger, notes it would make sense for rationalizing their fleets and reducing long-term capex. A challenge is that Intelsat is not considered “investment grade” given its recent Ch. 11 restructuring. #WSBW
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Sep 11
Coming up on 10 minutes before the launch of Firefly’s second Alpha. Presumably launch preparations are going well, but few specific updates during this lengthy pre-launch webcast.
T-3 minutes.
Go for launch at T-2 minutes.
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