Dr. Moriba Jah, Ph.D. - Space Sustainability, Orbital Safety & Reliability - Co-Founder - Privateer

Dr. Moriba Jah, Ph.D. (http://sites.utexas.edu/moriba/) is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin (https://www.ae.utexas.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/jah) where he is the holder of the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centennial Fellowship in Engineering.

Dr. Jah also serves as Chief Scientific Advisor and Co-Founder (along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak) of Privateer (https://www.privateer.com/), a space-tech venture with a mission of driving space sustainability and creating solutions to make orbits around Earth safe and reliable.

With a Ph.D. from University of Colorado (Boulder) Dr. Jah is the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, where his team focuses on the broad themes of Orbital Mechanics, including Space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization, as well as Spacecraft navigation. He is also the Lead for the Space Security and Safety Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Dr. Jah came to UT Austin by way of the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prior to that, where he was a Spacecraft Navigator on a handful of Mars missions.

Dr. Jah is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society (AAS), International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He has served on the US delegation to the United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to congress on his work as related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management.

Dr. Jah is a Co-Editor of the IAA and Elsevier Acta Astronautica journal, and serves on multiple committees: IAA Space Traffic Management, IAA Space Debris, AIAA Astrodynamics, IAF Astrodynamics, and IAF Space Security.