The 22nd Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, was hybrid this year, having both in-person and virtual components. The premier technical conference in the nation devoted to Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Domain Awareness (SDA), offered a cross-section of government, academic, and private-sector participation to help foster dialogue and international collaboration.
With meticulous health and safety planning by the AMOS Conference team, it was possible to present a hybrid event which enabled our international partners to contribute to the discussions that help build partnerships, collaborations, and protocols for good actors in the space domain. Since 2013, the presentation of two invited workshops—the AMOS Dialogue and the International SSA Data Operators Forum—provide ongoing opportunities to advance international cooperation and collaboration on space situational awareness.
In addition to the technical sessions, the AMOS Conference included keynote speakers, SSA policy forums, exhibit sessions, technical short courses and networking events. The policy forums, organized in collaboration with Secure World Foundation, were held after the keynote at the start of each day, of the 3-day conference. These sessions brought together the developers and implementers of SSA capabilities and the architects of SSA policy to explore international issues related to space sustainability.
Read the full 2021 AMOS Conference Highlights
Congratulations to the 2021 AMOS Award Winners
Best Paper Award
C. Channing Chow II, Cloudstone Innovations, LLC
Cislunar Orbit Determination Behavior: Processing Observations of Periodic Orbits with Gaussian Mixture Model Estimation Filters
Student Award
Shaylah Mutschler, University of Colorado Boulder
Application of SoleiTool for Density Estimation using CubeSat GPS Data
Conference Photos & Videos
2021 Technical Chairs
Paul Kervin, AFRL/RDSM
Daron Nishimoto, Pacific Defense Solutions – A Centauri Company
2021 Conference Advisors
Col L. Kirk Lewis, Ret., Institute for Defense Analyses
Jeanne Skog, Skog Rasmussen LLC
2021 Session Chairs
Astrodynamics
Thomas Kelecy, The Stratagem Group
Samuel Wishnek, University of Colorado Boulder
Atmospherics/Space Weather
Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Brandon “BT” Cesul, Centauri
Cislunar SSA
James Frith, AFRL RVSW
Jesse Greaves, University of Colorado Boulder
Conjunction/RPO
James Blake, University of Warwick
Darren McKnight, LeoLabs
Matthew Stevenson, LeoLabs
Dynamic Tasking
David Brough, Numerica
Gabe Egolf, Parsons
Machine Learning for SSA Applications
Islam Hussein, Trusted Space
Charlotte Shabarekh, MIT Lincoln Library
Non-Resolved Object Characterization
Heather Cowardin, NASA Johnson Space Center
Weston Faber, L3 Harris
Zach Gazak, Odyssey Systems
Optical Systems & Instrumentation
Bradford Barrett, AFOSR
Matthew Bold, Lockheed Martin
Stacie Williams, AFOSR
Space Situational/Domain Awareness
Moriba Jah, University of Texas at Austin
Danielle Wood, Space Enabled Research Group, MIT Media Lab
