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Mars Navigator Joins UA to Launch Space Research Initiative

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Moriba Jah: "What MIT was for the Apollo space program, Iā€™d like the UA to be for space domain awareness." (Photo: Pete Brown)

Mars Navigator Joins UA to Launch Space Research Initiative

Jan. 11, 2016
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Moriba Jah will spearhead efforts in space object behavioral sciences, part of the Defense and Security Research Institute.

Moriba Jah, who has steered spacecraft to Mars for NASA, is joining the College of Engineering and the Office for Research & Discovery to direct a new UA initiative focused on space object behavioral sciences ā€” the examination of objects in space, which includes locating satellites, studying the movement of objects in space and space traffic management.