Panel 2: Megaconstellations: The Train Has Left the Station. Now What?
Channel: Secure World Foundation
Date: 2021-07-27

While the early radio-frequency spectrum interference issues were addressed, the regulatory system has largely failed to address the broader public interest concerns from the deployment of LEO megaconstellations. Businesses are operating in a condition of uncertain future regulatory risk. Other users of the space domain question the long-term impacts of these operations on the viability of the environment. Terrestrial communities question whether the night sky is forever changed. This session asks whether it is too late to solve this failure - and what we can learn for future evolution of policy, business, and regulation.

Spotlight Talk Speaker: Timiebi Aganaba, Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Moderator: Chris Johnson, SWF Space Law Advisor

Panelists:
Tim Farrar, President, TMF Associates
Hugh Lewis, Professor of Astronautics, University of Southampton, UK
Randy Segal, Partner, Hogan Lovells LLP
Andy Williams, External Relations Officer, European Southern Observatory (ESO)