AMOS 2025 Dialogue Report

Since 2013, Secure World Foundation (SWF) has partnered with the Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB) to hold an invite-only workshop that promotes collaboration and cooperation on space situational awareness (SSA). The 2025 Dialogue was held on September 28, 2025, as part of the 2025 Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference. 

The goal of the AMOS Dialogue series is to facilitate discussion among key stakeholders in space situational awareness (SSA), thereby promoting greater collaboration and cooperation to enhance SSA for safe and responsible space activities. To accomplish this, the Dialogue brings together representatives from current and future SSA programs and initiatives around the world with a variety of end users and stakeholders so that they may exchange information and views in a not-for-attribution setting.

A number of areas of novel space activities are now seeing operational commercial missions increase in scope and pace. These include return and reentry activities; rendezvous and proximity operations, including satellite servicing and active debris removal; and cislunar and lunar surface missions. These activities offer both new needs for SSA information and new challenges for collecting SSA data. This year’s Dialogue focused on identification of the role of SSA in enabling this novel commercial space applications, including discussion of gaps and opportunities for improvement in current capabilities. It also discussed how national space traffic coordination systems might relate to enabling these mission types and how SSA information might support improved licensing practices for novel space activities. The major themes that arose during the dialogue were questions about what “basic spaceflight services” mean and when might operators need more than that; the complications arising from the possible “bifurcation” of in terms of how sophisticated users of SSA information are; and the extent of the interplay between standards and regulation in oversight of novel commercial space activities.