Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference (AMOS)

I attended the AMOS conference on Maui, Hawaii, USA. AMOS' scope are primarily the technologies used to track objects in orbit, which obviously relates to Space Debris.

It was extremely interesting to attend the talks and learn many things I hadn't had any exposure to before. Besides I don't think I'd met that many people that do work relevant to mine ever before.

I gave a talk that was bridging the gap between what the debris modelling community, which I am a part of now, does and what the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) people do. I also suggested that perhaps Active Debris Removal is not mandatory unlike what most people think. It was generally very well received, felt a lot better too, and I even got invited to another conference organised by the NASA Orbital Debris Office.

So, in general, all very good. Besides, just how great it is that the best, solely from the technical point of view, conference I could attend is on Maui?

A scene from the breakfast at the beach.