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Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Moriba Jah”

The inaugural Space Café WebTalk happened on 31 March 2020, featuring Professor Moriba Jah, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.

Professor Jah opened the event with an interesting, thorough discource on the topic of space situational awareness, covering points recently discussed in his SWGL op-ed, Orbital Space – The Next Resource For Humanity To Exhaustively Exploit And Litter!, published last month.

Following his remarks, the online audience had the opportunity to ask questions of Professor Jah.  

The Space Café WebTalks series is SpaceWatch.Global’s new webinar platform featuring global space experts.

You can view Professor Jah’s slides at ASTRIA_SpaceCafe_20200330

The complete video can be seen here:

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