Why we need to clean up our space debris

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.