Space Power and National Strategy

IGA 582M Subject & Catalog Number

Description

The commercial-sovereign boundary in space is being drawn right now by market structure rather than policy. This course argues that this is the most consequential governance failure of the decade, and trains students to engage it as a practitioner would: simultaneously through the engineering realities that constrain what is possible, the policy mechanisms that determine what governments actually do, and the investment logic that is shaping the domain faster than any treaty or executive order. Students stress-test that argument against live cases including the Artemis program, Golden Dome, the ILRS-Artemis Accords rivalry, and orbital data center infrastructure, and produce policy outputs modeled on actual government deliverables. No technical or investment background is required. A willingness to develop one is required.