Alex Fielding

12 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2022 by Alex Fielding · across every show →

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Nov 9, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Fielding: Space insurance policies frequently exclude damage from space debris
“Many insurance policies in space on the riders exclude space debris from a covered loss.”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 30:48 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fielding: Privateer's space map uses live data, not simulation
“These are live data. This is not a simulation.”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 0:14 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Fielding: Over 40% of registered space objects violate international space treaties
“Where they looked at how many objects in space are in or out of compliance with the Space Act and treaties. And the number out of compliance is over 40% of those registered objects are out of compliance.”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 32:54 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Fielding: 80% of space launches in 2021 were commercial, not government
“Now that we are in a commercial space environment where 80% of the things that went up last year were commercial versus government, that's a flip. Most of my lifetime, the things that went up most years were 80% government, and you'd be lucky to find 20% comme…”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:21:11 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fielding: Space traffic control will soon resemble air traffic control
“And ultimately if enforcement does occur, which I think it's bound to occur soon, it has to occur soon. You'll start to see space traffic control be very akin to air traffic control.”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:11:37 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Fielding: Space situational awareness is not a true commercial market
“If you look at this marketplace that some people would put privateer in the bucket of space situational awareness and domain awareness and traffic management, I would argue it's not a market. Because the commercial companies that are there, they don't make a g…”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:04:40 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fielding: Commercial space spending will surpass government spending very soon
“Now, the dollars haven't shifted yet, right? The government's still outspending the commercial sector because of all of those things, the war machine and intelligence gathering and defense. But that's gonna change very, very, very soon. It's bound to, because …”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:21:26 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Opinion
Fielding: Humanity has turned Earth's orbit into a giant ball of trash
“We've made a giant ball of trash.”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 0:17 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Fielding: Privateer launches satellites because operators refuse open data sharing
“If everyone wanted to share in space and wanted to do what we were doing, we wouldn't have to launch any of our own satellites. We could just ask them, why don't you just give us access to your stuff and we'll give access to the entire community. But it doesn'…”
Alex Fielding Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 56:06 Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
Dec 27, 2022 negative
Insight
Fielding: Space governance derived from maritime law lacks basic right-of-way rules
“These things were based in maritime law. And I guess that kind of made sense for the time because we needed a framework for how we interoperate in space, but that is actually creating the challenge because we don't have even the simplest notions of like right …”
Alex Fielding Dec 27, 2022 ▶ 34:12 a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Fielding: Ground radar misses over one million centimeter-sized space debris pieces
“So we're talking about over a million pieces of debris that are smaller than a centimeter. But the only thing we can really see from ground-based radar is stuff that's bigger than the size of a softball.”
Alex Fielding Dec 27, 2022 ▶ 31:26 a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
Dec 27, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fielding: Space insurance policy riders routinely exclude space debris damage
“Many insurance policies in space on the riders exclude space debris from a covered loss.”
Alex Fielding Dec 27, 2022 ▶ 33:41 a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
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