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

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)