Sample Syllabi

USSF PME / SAIS

• Spacepower History — 13-lesson Schriever core course

• Spacepower Theory — 13-lesson Schriever core course

• Space Policy & Strategy — 13-lesson West core course

• Space as a Warfighting Domain — 13-lesson West core course

• Space Security — 13-lesson SAIS elective

• Governance in a Vacuum — 13-lesson SAIS elective

• China at the Planetary Frontier — 13-lesson SAIS elective

Workshop Slides

Day 1

• Introduction and Welcome (Miller)

• Best Practices and Lessons Learned (Klein)

• Early Space History (Pavelec)

Day 2

• Orbital Mechanics (Johnson)

• Commercial Space Economy (Weeden)

• Trade Space Analysis (Ruyle)

• Satellites in the Ukraine War (Gurantz)

• Responsive Space and Emerging Architectures (Sandberg)

Day 3

• Space Geopolitics (Goswami)

• Space Diplomacy (Pekkanen)

• Space Security (Ben-Itzhak)

• Terrorism in Space (Miller)

• Middle East (Rubin)

• Intro to Space Law (Swiney)

• Role of NGOs (Hanlon)

Day 5

• Space Ethics (Bogacz)

• Using Scenarios and Exercises (Borowitz)

• Orbital Debris Exercise (Taylor)