The environmentalist and astrodynamicist is employing ancient technology to help safeguard the dark and quiet sky
Dr. Moriba Jah was a missile security officer guarding nukes, he looked up at the night sky. It was the first time he saw it from this point of view, clear from visual occlusions. From here, it was as dark as a lake.
“I’ve been saying for many years now that people will eventually die as a result of reentries,” Jah writes in acommenting on the news. “It is statistics and probabilities, and the human population will eventually lose.” Though no one has been killed by space debris reentry,Unsustainable exploration practices have beckoned Jah to lead that charge in a paradigm shift for society’s attitude toward the environment, including space. Humans need to feel a connection to the sky.
To get around the problem, Jah led the development of technology that is helping astronomers predict when light pollution could affect the view of space from the ground. With support from the National Geographic Society he implemented the software, called Glint Evader, on Privateer’s platform last year.Glint Evader is the latest piece of Jah’s effort with Privateer to empower the future of space sustainability. The program has been available for a couple of months in its beta version.
Maybe he’d help find the cure for AIDS. He considered it at the time. The dream aligned with his love for biology, but instead, he enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces for four years, where the overnight shift introduced him to satellites and veered his attention toward aerospace engineering. Later, he picked up a 16-hour overnight stint as an apartment security guard in Florida, after struggling to find employment once he left the Air Force.
For now, space cleanup mechanisms are challenging on multiple fronts, “and there’s no money in it,” Jah adds. The problem is layered, but he’s determined to explore all avenues that could lead to positive change.
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