To make space a safe, secure, and sustainable operational environment, we must find a way to make space missions transparent and predictable. We must develop a body of evidence with which we can hold space actors accountable for their behavior. The only real way to underwrite this is with a virtual replica of the space domain, so that our decisions can be properly informed in the context of such a complex system. This presentation will describe an example using ASTRIAGraph and the steps toward developing this digital twin of the space domain, driven by real use cases.
About the speaker
Moriba Jah is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is the holder of the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centennial Fellowship in Engineering. He is the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, as well as the Lead for the Space Security and Safety Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Dr. Jah came to UT Austin by way of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and before that, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was a Spacecraft Navigator on a handful of Mars missions.
Dr. Jah is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society (AAS), International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He has served on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to the U.S. Congress on his work related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. He is also an Associate Editor of the Elsevier Advances in Space Research journal, and serves on multiple committees: IAA Space Debris, AIAA Astrodynamics, IAF Astrodynamics, and IAF Space Security.