Furfaro Leads Team of International Researchers in Effort to Clean Up Space

Roberto Furfaro, director of Space Situational Awareness-Arizona -- or SSA-Arizona -- and systems and industrial engineering associate professor, wants to make space a safer place for our nation's satellites. With a $3.3 million cooperative agreement grant with the Air Force Research Lab, or AFRL, he's ready to make that happen.

The project is centered around making it easier for the “Five Eyes” – an international alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States -- to share data and surveil satellites. Furfaro and a team of UA researchers are creating a new cyberinfrastructure for AFRL where researchers can easily drop datasets, making it easier to collaborate -- and to make new discoveries in the area of space situational awareness.