NSIN Keynote with Moriba Jah

Esteemed academic Moriba Jah presents common and competing concerns in space as traffic grows more saturated, hazards emerge, and threats proliferate.

What you’ll find out

• Competing needs in space (07:00)
• Space security practices (12:00)
• Detecting versus tracking (16:10)
• Daily view of space light pollution (17:40)
• Getting in sync globally (19:00)

Key quotes

• “There’s structure to this. The highways we have in space have structure to them and they’re finite and the carrying capacity of these things is getting more and more saturated.” (04:28)
• “We’re interested in knowing about the entire population of these human-made objects or anthropogenic space objects.” (05:00)
• “A threat requires the concurrent existence of three things: the opportunity for something to cause harm, the capability for something to cause harm, and the intent for something to cause harm.” (11:17)
• “Opportunity and capability are things that can be measured with physical sensors, radars, telescopes, these sorts of things. Intent, not so much. That’s one we have to worry about. How do we actually measure or infer intent?” (11:30)
• “There is no single source of truth. The truth about all sensors is all sensors lie. So the question is how can we then amass and aggregate disparate sources of information to get to a picture that is more holistic, more comprehensive, that is true Earth.” (19:09)

Who’ll your hear from

Moriba Jah, UT Austin, Associate Professor

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