Moriba Jah, lead of Strauss’ Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability program, was featured in The Daily Texan as he will be receiving funding from NASA for a project he co-created. The project, titled “Adaptive Space Governance and Decision-Support using Source-Sink Evolutionary Environmental Models,” aims to increase space safety and orbital debris.
“The proposal was to identify methods of increasing space safety and sustainability, based on measures of environmental sustainability metrics like orbital carrying capacity … and how that might work with something called the Space Sustainability Rating as a way to incentivize people to behave sustainably in space.”
Moriba Jah, The Daily Texan
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The Strauss Center for International Security and Law is proud to announce the permanent establishment of the Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC Award in Space Policy, a new endowed scholarship made possible through the generous support of Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC. The award will provide an annual $2,000 scholarship to an outstanding The University of Texas at Austin student pursuing space policy. The Aerospace Policy...
The University of Texas at Austin has received a $9.3 million seed grant from the Texas Space Commission to establish the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab, becoming the first academic institution to work directly with the United States Space Force to detect, analyze, and counter space-based threats in near real time. Space Security, Safety, & Sustainability...
At the Strauss Center’s “Operational Assurance for All” 12th Annual Space Traffic Conference, Aarti Holla-Maini, head of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, highlighted growing difficulties in contacting satellite operators to coordinate maneuvers and prevent collisions as orbital traffic increases. The conference was recently highlighted in SpaceNews. Holla-Maini revealed that her office intervened twice in the past year...