Satellite operators
Flight dynamics, collision-avoidance policy, and the people who decide how much autonomy a system is given.
45 INTERVIEWS · CO-DESIGN SESSIONS
Participate
The empirical core of this project is what practitioners actually do when an autonomous system commits to a manoeuvre. That cannot be read out of the treaties, so we ask the people who operate, insure, track and standardise.
WHO WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM
Insurers and underwriters
How autonomy is priced, what conditions are imposed, and what evidence a claim requires after an incident.
SSA providers
Conjunction screening, data quality, and the terms on which warnings are shared or withheld.
Standards bodies and regulators
Those drafting technical norms, and those licensing operators against them.
What participation involves
A semi-structured interview
A conversation rather than a questionnaire, arranged at your convenience and held remotely unless you prefer otherwise.
Optionally, a co-design session
Working on draft instruments with others in the sector, on the understanding that participants shape the text rather than review a finished document.
Sight of what we say you said
Participants can see how their contribution is characterised before it is published.
- TIME REQUIRED
- Interview length to be confirmed
- FORMAT
- Remote by default, in person where you prefer it
- RECORDING
- Only with your consent, and you may decline and still take part
- WHO YOU SPEAK TO
- A named member of the research team, confirmed when the interview is arranged
- CO-DESIGN SESSIONS
- Held in English, in London and Montreal or remotely; travel arrangements agreed with participants
- YOUR DATA
- How the project handles it
CONFIDENTIALITY AND ETHICS
Commercial sensitivity is taken seriously. Contributions can be attributed, attributed by sector only, or kept unattributed, and that choice is yours to change up to publication.
The study is conducted under University of Aberdeen research ethics approval. Participant information and consent documents are provided before any interview.
ETHICS REFERENCE TO FOLLOW
PARTICIPANT INFORMATION SHEET TO FOLLOW