Space Traffic and the Tragedy of the Commons | Moriba Jah | TEDxDayton

The population of trackable man-made objects, the size of a softball and larger, orbiting the Earth exceeds 22000. Of these, only about 1300 work and the remainder are space debris, garbage. Dr. Moriba Jah talk to us about this growing population and concerns about space traffic for future generations and the roles of government, industry, and academia in delivering solutions to this wicked problem.
Dr. Moriba Jah is the director of the University of Arizona’s Space Object Behavioral Sciences with applications to space domain awareness, space protection, space traffic monitoring, planetary defense, and space debris research. He received his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona, and his master’s and doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in astrodynamics and statistical orbit determination. Before joining the University of Arizona, Moriba was the space situational awareness mission lead for the Air Force Research Laboratory, and a spacecraft navigator for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory serving on a number of Mars missions.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@rebekahbrown4052]

Hi Moriba, just spent the afternoon with a friend of yours. Susie Santoro says hello. I live down the street from her and she told me about you. WOW! Great talks!

[@sempris]

Powerful message

[@WilliamJCroft]

US Government clearly needs to slow down the Starlink mega-constellation of projected / approved 30,000 plus new satellites. Until we have better regulatory / enforcement processes in place. Starlink is making promises they cannot really keep. This is especially the case given the huge numbers of untracked debris items.

[@jenshoxmark4713]

Very excellent presentation that I've posted on several occasions in Facebook and LinkedIn. We should think and act to NOT let our near-space end up useless for many decades to come.

[@mohamedthiamsheriff8630]

This is a powerful presentation by Dr Jah. I can't stop watching it again and again.

[@carolsaavedra3039]

am so PROUD OF YOU MY NEGRO BELLO

[@mmmben]

Yo who's here from Environment Earth????

[@HansTurin]

love the fit. this guy has rizz

[@kingdavid5600]

God is too much in spite of planets in apace, God loves man and he made them in his image.