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Mariel Borowitz

Mariel Borowitz

Associate Professor of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology; Director of International Space Situational Awareness at U.S. Office of Space Commerce

Jul 20, 2026

12:49
Mario, also, I'd like to get your perspective on this, just in terms of whether you think our current space infrastructure is up to the challenge of the growing space economy.
13:00
Yeah, I would say it seemed like it was for a while, and now the pace at which we are accelerating space activity is really requiring improvements in growth and infrastructure, I think, in a lot of different ways.
13:16
So communication is a great example, but launch has also come up recently as an area where, you know, we have multiple launch sites in the United States.
13:28
We have multiple launch providers.
13:31
And yet there have been a couple of reports recently that actually just projecting out even just the next couple of years, it looks like we're really going to be putting a strain on that infrastructure.
13:41
So do we really have enough spaceports and enough launch vehicles to support the number of spacecraft that people are planning to put into orbit? So I think that's a challenge.
13:53
assuming we are able to meet that challenge and we can launch what we want to launch and get things into space then we also run into the challenge of how do we operate all these things safely and that's both a technical question in terms of improving our capabilities for space situational awareness which are multiple governments and multiple companies working on that issue but not just the technical challenge also kind of the international coordination and governance challenge You know, even if we can track things closely, there's also a need to do that coordination among these different spacecraft operators to make sure, you know, everyone's kind of focusing on their own mission, focusing on their own operations.

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23:27
Are there things you think government should be doing? Policies, regulations, or investments?

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