What to expect at this year's AMOS Conference and Exhibition

Publish date: 2024-05-14

Industry, government and academic leaders focused on space situational awareness are meeting in Hawaii Sept. 20-23 for this year’s Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference.

The annual event highlights policy and technical discussions surrounding government and commercial space situational awareness surveillance.

SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss will moderate discussions with Maj. Gen. David Thompson, the vice commander of Air Force Space Command, and Doug Loverro, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, following their keynote addresses Tuesday, Sept. 21.

On Wednesday, Sept. 22, Gruss will also talk about the role of international partnerships with Frank Rose, the assistant secretary of state for arms control and verification, after his keynote address

TUESDAY, SEPT  20 – Subject to Change

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

TECHNICAL SHORT COURSES 1 & 2 

1. Collision Avoidance Risk Assessment | Mauna Loa Ballroom

2. ARCADE Programing 101 | Ilima Ballroom

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

TECHNICAL SHORT COURSES 3 & 4

3. Observing and Characterizing Space Debris | Mauna Loa Ballroom

4. Theory and Application of Multi-Objective Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm | Ilima Ballroom

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

WELCOME RECEPTION | Kaho’olawe Lawn

Co-sponsored by The Boeing Company

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 – Subject to Change

7:30 AM

CONFERENCE OPENING | Aulani Ballroom

Jeanne Unemori Skog, President & CEO, Maui Economic Development Board

INVOCATION

Reverend Kealahou Alika, Keawala‘i Congregational Church

7:45 AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Introduction by L. Kirk Lewis (Col, Ret.), Senior Analyst, Institute for Defense Analyses

Maj. Gen. David D. Thompson, Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command

Douglas L. Loverro, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy

8:45 AM

Discussion and Q&A with Maj. Gen. Thompson and Mr. Loverro

Facilitated by Mike Gruss, SpaceNews

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM

SSA POLICY FORUM: Toward Space Traffic Management | Aulani Ballroom

Although the topic of space traffic management (STM) is not new, it has recently seen renewed interest among satellite operators and governments. Growing international and commercial interest in space has increased concerns about physical and radiofrequency congestion in key orbits. Commercial companies have announced plans to conduct space activities such as human spaceflight, space situational awareness, on-orbit satellite servicing, and exploration of the Moon and asteroids that challenge existing licensing and regulatory frameworks. At the same time, top military leaders have expressed interest in moving away from providing conjunction assessment for all satellite operators, and civil agencies such as the FAA/AST has expressed interest in taking their place. This session will discuss the current status of the STM discussion within the United States, what steps are being considered for future responsibilities and authorities, and the major questions that still need to be answered.

PANEL

Moderated by Brian Weeden, Technical Advisor, Secure World Foundation

10:15 AM

COFFEE BREAK  | Aulani BallroomEXHIBITS OPEN

10:45 AM

ADAPTIVE OPTICS & IMAGING (15-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Lt Col Michael Martinez, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Charles Matson, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

All-Sky Image Fusion for a Synoptic Survey Telescope in Arctic and Antarctic Domain

Daylight Operation of a Sodium Laser Guide Star for Adaptive Optics Wave-front Sensing

A Comprehensive Approach to High-Resolution Daylight Imaging for SSA

Developing Geostationary Satellite Imaging at Lowell Observatory

High Time Resolution Photon Counting 3D Imaging Sensors

SPIDER: Next Generation Chip Scale Imaging Sensor Update

12:15 PM

LUNCH | Mei Court

1:15 PM

SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (20-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Stacie Williams, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Thomas Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory

Operational Implementation of a Pc Uncertainty Construct for Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis

Assessing the UN IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines: A Case for Ontology-based Data Management

JSpOC SSA: A Year in Review

Coordination of Ground- and Space-based Optical Systems: Lessons from the SKYNET Observation and Relocation Experiment

A Novel Method for Satellite Maneuver Prediction

2:55 PM

COFFEE BREAK (20 MINUTES) | Aulani Ballroom

3:15 PM

ORBITAL DEBRIS (15-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Tim Flohrer, ESA/ESOC Space Debris Office and Thomas Schildknecht, Astronomical Institute University of Bern

NASA’s Orbital Debris Optical and IR Ground-based Observing Program Utilizing the MCAT, UKIRT, and Magellan Telescopes

The Population of Optically Faint GEO Debris

Optical Observations of Briz-M Fragments in GEO

Application of Satellite Laser Ranging Techniques for Space Situational Awareness Efforts

Optical Techniques for Space Environment Management

Laser Remote Maneuver of Space Debris at the Space Environment Research Centre

Tracking Low Earth Orbit Small Debris with GPS Satellites as Bistatic Radar

Sub-millimeter Size Debris Monitoring System with IDEA OSG 1

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM

EXHIBIT AND POSTER SESSION | Aulani Ballroom
Sponsored by SAIC

THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 – Subject to Change

7:30 AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 

Introduction and Q&A Discussion facilitated by Mike Gruss, SpaceNews

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

SSA POLICY FORUM: International SSA Operator Exchange | Aulani Ballroom

SSA Data Sharing Agreements have become a strategic policy tool for strengthening international partnerships and space situational awareness cooperation amongst governments and satellite operators. In 2013, the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) memorandum of understanding intended to strengthen deterrence, enhance resilience and optimize resources. One of CSpO goals is to support global operations and military-to- military relationships. In addition, there are also broader discussions of government-to-government sharing of SSA data to improve national security and safety of spaceflight. This session will include keynotes that updates SSA policy priorities and include a panel that will share insights from SSA operators on lessons learned and steps that can be taken to enhance sharing.

PANEL

Moderated by Mike Wasson, Senior Director Operations, Analytical Graphics Inc.

9:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK |  Aulani Ballroom

 10 AM

INSTRUMENTATION AND OPTICAL SURVEILLANCE (15-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Mark Ackermann, Sandia National Laboratories and Susan Lederer, NASA Johnson Space Center

Combined Space-Based Observations of Geostationary Satellites

Mission Design and Simulation Considerations for ADReS-A

Matched Template Signal Processing for Coherent, Continuous Wave Laser Tracking of Space Debris

GEO Satellite Characterization Through Polarimetry Using Simultaneous Observations from Nearby Optical Sensors

Multiple Observing Modes for Wide-Field Optical Surveillance of GEO Space

Affordable Wide-field Optical Space Surveillance using sCMOS and GPUs

11:30 AM

LUNCH | Mei Court

12:30 PM

INSTRUMENTATION AND OPTICAL SURVEILLANCE (continued) | Aulani Ballroom

Automated Astrometric Analysis of Satellite Observations Using Wide-field Imaging

Catalog Creation for Space Situational Awareness with Optical Sensors

Enabling GEODSS for Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

Adapting a Planetary Science Observational Facility for Space Situational Awareness

1:30 PM

SSA ALGORITHMS (20-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ryan Coder, Integrity Applications Incorporated-Pacific Defense Solutions (IAI-PDS)

Uncued Low SNR Detection with Likelihood from Image Multi Bernoulli Filter

Utilizing Novel Non-traditional Sensor Tasking Approaches to Enhance the Space Situational Awareness Picture Maintained by the Space Surveillance Network

OrbitOutlook Data Processing Algorithms: Multi-Modal Fusion for Autonomous Verification and Validation of Commercial and Crowdsourced Data

Evidence-based Sensor Tasking for Space Domain Awareness

2:50 PM

COFFEE BREAK (20 MINUTES) | Aulani Ballroom

3:10 PM

SSA ALGORITHMS (continued) | Aulani Ballroom

A Sensor Tasking Reward Function Incorporating Target Priorities

Resident Space Objects Characterization and Behavior Understanding via Machine Learning and Ontology-based Bayesian Networks

Dynamic Sensor Tasking for Space Situational Awareness via Reinforcement Learning

False-Object Identification for Space Surveillance Catalog Maintenance

High Performance Orbital Propagation Using a Generic Software Architecture

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM

SPACE EXPLORATION STUDENT SESSION

Maui  middle school students to participate in hands-on STEM activities

4:50 – 6:00 PM

EXHIBIT AND POSTER SESSION | Aulani Ballroom

Co-sponsored by SpaceNav

8:00 – 10:00 PM

SATELLITE WATCHING AND STAR PARTY | Pacific Terrace Rooftop

Sponsored by Analytical Graphics, Inc.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 – Subject to Change

7:30AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Introduction by Pat Patterson, Director, Advanced Concepts, Space Dynamics Laboratory

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

SSA POLICY FORUM: SSA and Small Satellites | Aulani Ballroom

Over the last several years, smallsats have transitioned from lab experiments to viable platforms. Thousands of small satellites – ranging from 1U cubesats weighing a few kilograms to large models the size of a dishwasher and weighing a few hundred kilograms – are currently planned to be deployed into a wide range of orbits. While the surge in smallsats is increasing the rate of innovation and lower the costs of deploying space capabilities, they also present challenges. They can be more difficult to track and identify, particularly when deployed in large numbers at once, and often lack maneuvering capabilities. And operators of larger satellites have expressed concerns that large numbers of unmaneuverable smallsats could create unmanageable increases in conjunction warnings.

PANEL

Moderated by Pat Patterson, Director, Advanced Concepts, Space Dynamics Laboratory

9:00 AM

COFFEE BREAK  | Aulani BallroomEXHIBITS OPEN

9:30 AM

ASTRODYNAMICS (20-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Co-chaired by Moriba Jah, The University of Arizona and Paul Schumacher, Air Force Research Laboratory

Ground-based Tracking of Geosynchronous Space Objects with a GM-CPHD Filter

Schmidt-Kalman Filter with Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Orbit Determination of Space Objects

Homotopy Particle Filter for Ground-Based Tracking of Satellites at GEO

On the Confidence Region of Least Squares Solutions for Single-arc Observations

Joint Target Detection and Tracking Filter for Chilbolton Advanced Meteoroligical Radar Data Processing

11:30 AM

LUNCH | Mei Court

12:30 PM

ASTRODYNAMICS (continued) | Aulani Ballroom

KRATOS: Kollision Risk Assessment Tool in Orbital Element Spaces

Spatial Density Maps from a Debris Cloud

When Does the Uncertainty Become Non-Gaussian?

Unexplained Momentum Impulse Transfer Events (MITEs)

Synthesis of Disparate Optical Imaging Data for Space Domain Awareness

Towards Relaxing the Spherical Solar Radiation Pressure Model for Accurate Orbit Predictions

Reconstructing Close Proximity Events in Geosynchronous Orbit Using Sparse, Multi-Aspect Observations

2:30 PM

COFFEE BREAK | Aulani Ballroom

2:50 PM

NON-RESOLVED OBJECT CHARACTERIZATION (15-min presentations) | Aulani Ballroom

Standardized Photometric Calibrations for Panchromatic SSA Sensors

Open-Filter Optical SSA Analysis Considerations

A Discrimination Analysis of Sloan and Johnson Photometric Systems for Non-Resolved Object Characterization

Comparison of ENVISAT’s Attitude Simulation and Real Optical and SLR Observations in Order to Refine the Satellite Attitude Model

Non-imaging Characterization Assessment of Shedding Events from Derelict Satellites near Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO)

Shape Estimation from Lightcurves including Constraints from Orbit Determination

A High Fidelity Approach to Data Simulation for Space Situational Awareness Missions

4:35 PM

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

CLOSING LUAU DINNER | Kaho’olawe Lawn

 

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