SSS Director Publishes Space Object Graph

December 11, 2019

Moriba Jah, 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, recently published a graph tool which illustrates the orbits of 1500 satellites and space junk items.

These objects, which are all within low earth orbit, consistently cross paths at very high speeds, increasing the likelihood of collisions which would produce further space debris. Read more and view the tool here.

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