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
Dan Ceperley of LeoLabs shows as an example of activities his company’s radars are tracking are ongoing proximity operations by the Shijian-6 05A and B satellites, less than a kilometer apart. #AMOSCon
Almudena Azcarate Ortega: in international law, almost all actors comply with almost all laws almost all the time. #AMOScon
Benjamin Silverstein of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes if you want an enforceable international agreement, you need to start strong. In chemical weapons convention, a provision for “challenge inspections” has never been used and thus lost value. #AMOSCon
Hendrix: we help operators resolve problems with their satellites, without calling attention to it. We don’t want to be the paparazzi of space. #AMOScon
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