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The Intersection of Space Systems Engineering and International Public Policy

Offered Fall 2024 with Professor Nicholas Rotunda

SAIS CATALOGUE
Nicholas Rotunda

Senior Professional Staff member with the Space Systems Engineering Program

This course straddles the boundary between engineering and public policy related to Outer Space. It presents space policy and the effects that policy has on engineering decisions. It presents the underlying space systems engineering principles that necessitate space policy. Space is a highly technical and nonintuitive domain. Professionals working in any space-related field should have a basic understanding of the relationship between engineering and international public policy.

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