Bringing Together Industry and Academia via Graduate Commercial Spaceflight Operations Curriculum

A graduate level curriculum covering topics in commercial spaceflight operations has been developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This paper outlines the high level insights gained through this process with the explicit objective of enabling dissemination to other institutions of higher education. Furthermore, several synergistic areas in the domains of technology, business, and operations have been identified that are benefiting from collaboration between industry and academia. Continued efforts in these areas are expected to produce innovation and improved technological solutions for the space industry.