Space Education & Strategic Applications Volume 1, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2020 | Page 4

Modeling and Simulation of a Long-Wave Infrared Polarimetric
Sensor for Space Object Detection and Characterization .......................... 81
Kevin Pohl, Jonathan Black, Jonathan Pitt, and Edward Colbert
Tailored Systems Engineering Processes For Low-Cost
High-Risk Missions ....................................................................................... 91
Jared Clements, Tyler Murphy, Lee Jasper,
and Charlene Jacka
Will a Global Reliance on Space Technology Inevitably
Lead the United States to Conflict? ............................................................ 107
Iván Gulmesoff
Disaggregating The United States Military: An Analysis
of the Current Organizational and Management Structure
of U.S. National Security Policy as it Relates to Military
Operations In Space .................................................................................... 123
Joseph Myles Zeman
Why Students and Recent Grads Should Seek an Internship with
SpaceX Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and What to Expect .................. 189
Melissa Layne
BOOK REVIEWS
A Review of Understanding Space Strategy: The Art of War
in Space by John J. Klein ............................................................................. 201
Mark Peters II
A Review of Apollo Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings ............... 205
Roger D. Launius
A Review of Essentials of Public Health Biology: Biologic
Mechanisms of Disease and Global Perspectives ........................................ 207
Loretta DiPietro, Julie Deloia, and Victor Barbiero
EDITORS RECOMMENDED READINGS
Geopolitics of Outer Space. Westphalia Press, 2019
Ilada Aydin
The author examines the 21 st century space technological developments and its
potentials to alter nations relationships based on security considerations. This
concise easy to read text brings forth the US-China relationship in this new
developing field of competition.
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