A recent post published by the MIT Media Lab discusses the rollout of the World Economic Forum’s Space Sustainability Rating (SSR.) Dr. Moriba Jah, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, Program Lead of the Space Security and Safety (SSS) program at the Strauss Center, Director of the Advanced Sciences and Technology Research in Astronautics (ASTRIA) program, and Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the leaders of the team that spearheaded this initiative. As the MIT Lab’s article notes, the space sustainability rating is “designed to score the sustainability of manufacturers and operators, and is based on factors such as plans to de-orbit systems upon completion of missions; choice of orbital altitude; ability of systems to be detected and identified from the ground; collision-avoidance measures; size and number of objects left in space from the launch vehicle; and sharing of data.” The article also discusses the “digital commons” that Dr. Jah developed with his team at UT which supports this endeavor—the Advanced Research Collaboration and Application Development Environment (ARCADE.) ASTRIAGraph, Dr. Jah notes, also supports the SSR by “providing creating a public platform to visualize and analyze estimates of the locations of human-generated space objects.” Read more about the Space Sustainability Rating here.