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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.”
Fielding: Putting a satellite in space costs less than attorney paperwork fees
“I can put a satellite in space for less than I can pay our attorneys to do the paperwork.”
Fielding: Privateer plans to offer space tracking tools for free
“We aim to democratize the space situational awareness market. By bringing these tools to humankind for free, by enabling and empowering the community so that we have a single source of truth and knowledge, and we're not aiming to own it.”
Fielding: Space traffic control should be a government service
“Space situational awareness and domain awareness and traffic management and ultimately traffic control. Becoming services that actually should be provided by governments that have traditionally only been provided by private industry.”
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…”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
Fielding: US GPS constellation has stayed at roughly 30 satellites for 22 years
“We haven't really grown that constellation in 22 years. It's still about a 30 GPS satellites that give us the, that are United States assets.”
Fielding: Privateer is launching its own satellite constellation
“For that we're putting up a constellation of our own satellites, which I hope doesn't sound too hypocritical.”
Fielding: Roscosmos cosmonauts were unaware of 2021 Russian ASAT test
“The cosmonauts from Roscosmos that were aboard the space station at the time, they had no damn idea that their government was going to blow up an asset and put them and the world in peril.”
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…”
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.”
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 …”
Fielding: Humanity has turned Earth's orbit into a giant ball of trash
“We've made a giant ball of trash.”
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.”
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'…”