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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_name = Moriba Kemessia Jah
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|03|23}}
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*{{marriage|Maria Renee Washington|1991|1999|end=divorce}}
*{{marriage|Cassaundra Renea Shafer|2002|2024|end=divorce}}}}
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| academic_advisors = Ronald Madler, [[Penina Axelrad]]
| workplaces = [[University of Texas at Austin]] <br/> [[University of Arizona]] <br/> [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] <br/> [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] <br/> [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]
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{{Wikipuffery|date=October 2023}}{{Close connection|date=October 2023}}
'''Moriba Kemessia Jah''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|CorrFRSE]] (born 1971) is an American [[space scientist]]
== Early life and education ==
Jah was born in San Francisco, [[California]] to Elsie Turnier from [[Port-Au-Prince]], [[Haiti]] and Abraham Jah from [[Pujehun]], [[Sierra Leone]]. Jah's parents divorced when he was two years old. He moved to [[Venezuela]] at the age of six.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://lift.erau.edu/space-junkie/|title=Space Junk(ie)|date=2018-03-30|website=Lift Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref>
Following his enlistment, he studied [[Aerospace engineering|Aerospace Engineering]] at [[Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University]] in Prescott Arizona and earned a bachelor's degree in 1999.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.coder.umd.edu/node/278|title=Jah, Moriba {{!}} CODER|website=www.coder.umd.edu|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> He was inspired to become an [[astrodynamicist]] by Ron Madler.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://utexas.academia.edu/MoribaJah/CurriculumVitae|title=Moriba Jah {{!}} The University of Texas at Austin - Academia.edu|website=utexas.academia.edu|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref>
▲Following his enlistment, he studied [[Aerospace engineering|Aerospace Engineering]] at [[Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University]] in Prescott Arizona and earned a bachelor's degree in 1999.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.coder.umd.edu/node/278|title=Jah, Moriba {{!}} CODER|website=www.coder.umd.edu|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> He was inspired to become an [[astrodynamicist]] by Ron Madler.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://utexas.academia.edu/MoribaJah/CurriculumVitae|title=Moriba Jah {{!}} The University of Texas at Austin - Academia.edu|website=utexas.academia.edu|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref> As an undergraduate student, Jah was awarded a [[NASA]] space grant, which allowed him to investigate lunar [[gravity assist]] trajectories for Earth orbit plane changes.
He went to the [[University of Colorado Boulder]] for his graduate studies, earning a master's in 2001 and PhD, under the supervision of [[George Born]], in 2005.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Jah|first=Moriba Kemessia|date=2005|title=Mars aerobraking spacecraft state estimation by processing inertial measurement unit data|journal=Ph.D. Thesis|bibcode=2005PhDT........64J}}</ref> During his PhD he worked at the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] as a navigation engineer, developing the navigation algorithms and performing orbit determination for several missions, including the [[Mars Global Surveyor]], [[2001 Mars Odyssey|Mars Odyssey]] and [[Mars Exploration Rover]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/2460/moriba-jah|title=Moriba Jah|last=mars.nasa.gov|website=NASA’s Mars Exploration Program|language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> His doctoral thesis looked at [[aerobraking]] spacecraft, using an Unscented [[Kalman filter|Kalman Filter]] to estimate the spacecraft trajectory and explore this as a possible way to automate aerobraking operations.<ref name=":2" />▼
In 2006, Jah left NASA JPL and became a Senior Scientist at [[Oceanit Laboratories]] on Maui, where he used optical data to determine space trajectories.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiaa.org/memberspotlightJune2016/|title=Momentum Member Spotlight â€" June 2016 : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|website=www.aiaa.org|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jah|first1=M.|last2=Madler|first2=R.|date=2007|title=Satellite Characterization: Angles and Light Curve Data Fusion for Spacecraft State and Parameter Estimation|journal=Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference|pages=E49|bibcode=2007amos.confE..49J}}</ref> He was awarded the [[NASA]] Space Act Award "for the creative development of a scientific contribution which has been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the space and aeronautical activities of NASA, and is entitled: Inertial Measurements for Aero-assisted Navigation (IMAN)" in 2007.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blogs/featured-techie|title=Featured Techie: Astrodynamicist Moriba Jah|last1=Posted by Daniel Leuck on August 6|first1=2009 at 10:30am|last2=Blog|first2=View|website=www.techhui.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref>▼
▲He went to the [[University of Colorado Boulder]] for his graduate studies, earning a master's in 2001 and PhD, under the supervision of [[George Born]], in 2005.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Jah|first=Moriba Kemessia|date=2005|title=Mars aerobraking spacecraft state estimation by processing inertial measurement unit data|journal=Ph.D. Thesis|bibcode=2005PhDT........64J}}</ref> During his PhD he worked at the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] as a navigation engineer, developing the navigation algorithms and performing orbit determination for several missions, including the [[Mars Global Surveyor]], [[2001 Mars Odyssey|Mars Odyssey]] and [[Mars Exploration Rover]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/2460/moriba-jah|title=Moriba Jah|last=mars.nasa.gov|website=
▲In 2006, Jah left NASA JPL and became a Senior Scientist at
== Career ==
In 2007 Jah joined the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] (AFRL).<ref name=":3" /> He directed the [[AFRL]] Advanced Sciences and Technology Research Institute for Astronautics (ASTRIA) in [[Maui]] from 2007 to 2010 and then at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico until 2014.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://thespaceshow.com/guest/dr.-moriba-k.-jah|title=Dr. Moriba K. Jah {{!}} The Space Show|website=thespaceshow.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> At [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], Jah was made mission lead in [[Space Situational Awareness Programme|Space Situational Awareness]] and advised the satellite guidance and control program.<ref name=":4" />
He left the [[AFRL]] in 2016 to become an associate professor at the [[University of Arizona]].<ref name=":1" /> He served as director of the University of Arizona's Space Object Behavioral Sciences initiative. Here he developed techniques to track and understand the more than 23,000 human-made objects that are inside [[Earth's orbit]], of which only ≈ 1,500 are operational.<ref name=":0" />
In 2017, Jah joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae.utexas.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/jah|title=Moriba K. Jah|website=www.ae.utexas.edu|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> He is interested in non-gravitational [[Astrodynamicist|astrodynamics]] and using [[big data]] in [[astrodynamics]] through a [[Resource Description Framework]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sites.utexas.edu/moriba/astriagraph/|title=ASTRIAGraph|website=sites.utexas.edu
Jah is concerned because the [[United States Strategic Command]] cannot accurately track all satellites, and their current data could be biased, noisy and corrupt.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aoe.vt.edu/content/aoe_vt_edu/en/about-us/seminars/archive/2018/aoe-seminar-02-26-18.html|title=Space Surveillance and Tracking: Challenges for Unique Space Object Identification and Space Traffic Management|website=aoe.vt.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mwi.usma.edu/mwi-podcast-future-hold-us-military-space/|title=MWI PODCAST: WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE US MILITARY IN SPACE?|website=mwi.usma.edu|date=31 May 2019|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> He gave formal congressional testimony to the [[Federal government of the United States]] in 2017, discussing a Civil Space Traffic Management system.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/legislative/hearings/7-13-17%20JAH.pdf|title=Reopening the American Frontier: Promoting Partnerships Between Commercial Space and the U.S. Government to Advance Exploration and Settlement|website=NASA|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref> He believes that we should create a global, accessible, and transparent [[space traffic management]] system, which would protect spacecraft from [[Space debris|debris]] and a lack of monitoring.<ref name=":5" />
Jah has served as a member of the delegation at the [[United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space]] and chairs the [[NATO]] SCI-279-TG activity on Space Domain Awareness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.strausscenter.org/distinguished-scholars/moriba-jah.html|title=Moriba Jah|website=The Strauss Center|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> He was appointed as Core Faculty to the [[University of Texas at Austin]] [[Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences]] in 2018 where he directs the Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies group (a.k.a. The CAST).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ices.utexas.edu/people/1581/|title=Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences {{!}} University of Texas at Austin|website=ICES|language=en-us|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ices.utexas.edu/research/centers-groups/cast/|title=Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies|website=www.ices.utexas.edu|access-date=2019-01-28}}</ref> He has discussed astrodynamics and space policy on [[NPR]], the [[BBC]] as well as featuring in the [[National Geographic]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sources.npr.org/moriba-jah/|title=Moriba Jah|date=2018-08-15|website=Source of the Week|language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvrhc|title=BBC World Service - Science in Action, Can Science Save the Northern White Rhino?|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/elfyscott/scientists-are-using-lasers-to-move-space-junk-from-earth|title=Scientists Think They Might Be Able To Solve The Space Junk Problem – By Shooting Lasers At It|last=Scott|first=Elfy|website=BuzzFeed|date=4 November 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/artificial-meteor-showers-japan-satellite-space-science/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614214138/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/artificial-meteor-showers-japan-satellite-space-science/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 14, 2016|title=Get Ready for Artificial Meteor Showers|date=2016-06-14|website=National Geographic News|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite
At the [[University of Texas at Austin]], Jah is also a Distinguished Scholar of the [[Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Distinguished Scholar|url=https://www.strausscenter.org/distinguished-scholars/moriba-jah.html|access-date=2019-01-28|website=strausscenter.org}}</ref> Jah's research interests are focused upon the detection, tracking, identification, and characterization of resident space objects. The goal is to quantify, assess, and predict the behavior of all resident space objects, both natural and human-made. Jah's published works span the areas of space situational awareness, space traffic management, spacecraft navigation, [[space surveillance]] and tracking, multi-source [[information fusion]], and more recently the intersection with space security and safety.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Moriba Jah, Ph.D. Publications|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zFLVqvkAAAAJ&hl=en}}</ref> He has previously served as Associate Editor of the [[IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems]] and is currently for the [[Elsevier]] [[Advances in Space Research]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Moriba K. Jah {{!}} Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society|url=http://ieee-aess.org/contact/moriba-k-jah|access-date=2019-01-25|website=ieee-aess.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Moriba Jah I IWLR2018|url=http://www.iwlr2018.serc.org.au/professor-moriba-jah-i-iwlr2018.html|access-date=2019-01-25|website=www.iwlr2018.serc.org.au}}</ref>
In 2021, Jah co-founded Privateer Space with [[Steve Wozniak]] and [[Alex Fielding]], where he serves as Chief Scientist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Privateer Space |url=https://mission.privateer.com/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=mission.privateer.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-08 |title=Space tracking startup Privateer hires Jah as chief scientific adviser |url=https://spacenews.com/space-tracking-startup-privateer-hires-jah-as-chief-scientific-adviser/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition==
Jah's work has been featured in ''Nature'',<ref>{{Cite journal
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! scope="row" | Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate Technology Transfer/Transition Achievement Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/817772/afrl-salutes-award-winning-employees/|title=AFRL salutes award-winning employees|date=19 March 2014 }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Elected to Fellow of the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/818655/afrl-inducts-2015-fellows/|title=2015 Air Force Research Laboratory Fellows|date=28 October 2015 }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Conferred as Fellow by the [[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]] "For thought leadership and innovative technical contributions in the fields of space situational awareness, space traffic management, and astrodynamics.
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! scope="row" | Selected as one of 25 "People racing to save us" of WIRED25 by the [[Wired (magazine)]]
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! scope="row" | Selected as a Public Voices Fellow by the Op-Ed
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|scope="row" | Elected as Corresponding Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://rse.org.uk/leading-thinkers-and-practitioners-elected-as-rse-fellows/ |title= LEADING THINKERS AND PRACTITIONERS ELECTED AS RSE FELLOWS|date=2023-04-20|language=en|access-date=2023-07-16}}</ref>
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