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Moriba Jah - Resident Space Objects and Orbital Collision Prevention - CSP S02E11

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On this episode on the Cold Star Project, hosted by Jason Kanigan, our guest is Dr. Moriba Jah. Dr. Jah had an amazing career as navigator of a number of NASA Mars missions, and is now Director, Computational Astronautical Sciences & Technologies, Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.  


I was referred to Dr. Jah by Fred Kennedy, past director of the US Space Development Agency, as a person "leading the charge" on space traffic management.  


In our interview, we cover:  

  • the reason current collision detection equations are so lousy, and what we can do to improve them
  • how photoacoustic sensing can be improved and used to develop Resident Space Object (RSO) signatures
  • what we need to learn before machine learning/AI can be used to identify threatening behaviors or as a forensic tool after anomalous events
  • what credibility metrics are for collision prevention, what's missing, and why we need these
  • how Bayesian equations can be used to improve our space tracking data, orbital collision detection models and certainty
  • what curved space is, and what is challenging about modeling RSO travel within it
  • what we can investigate and build so we have a tool to estimate debris fields upon reentry--no models of which exist now.  


    • Notes: 


    Dr. Moriba Jah's article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriba_Jah 


    Orekit database by CS Group (creator of which will be a guest on an upcoming episode): https://www.orekit.org/  


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