2025 Workshop Information

Planned Speakers (as of 8 April)

Svetla Ben-Itzhak, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Magdalena Bogacz, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Tech
Everett Dolman, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Namrata Goswami, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Ron Gurantz, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Michelle Hanlon, University of Mississippi
Kirk Johnson, USSF / JHU-SAIS
John Klein, Space Strategist
Gregory Miller, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Teasel Muir-Harmony, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Mike Pavelec, USSF / JHU-SAIS
Saadia Pekkanen, University of Washington
Lawrence Rubin, Georgia Tech
Ariel Sandberg, Space Development Agency
Gabriel Swiney, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Brian Weeden, The Aerospace Corporation

Session Topics

The agenda is still being developed, but below is a list of some of the topics we intend to offer this summer:

  • Space History

  • Space Ethics

  • Space Strategy

  • Space Geopolitics

  • Space Law

  • Orbital Mechanics

  • Satellites in the Ukraine War

  • Chinese Space Policy

  • National Security Space

  • Commercial Space

  • Space Diplomacy

  • Deterrence in Space

  • Middle East Space

  • Pedagogy (Best Practices; Space Mini Exercises/Wargames; Using Science Fiction)

We are also planning to incorporate an optional tour of the National Air & Space Museum and a trip to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.