Associate Professor and head of the program on International Affairs, Science, and Technology
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Mariel Borowitz’s research deals with international space policy issues, focusing particularly on global developments related to remote sensing satellites and challenges to space security and sustainability.
Mariel Borowitz’s research deals with international space policy issues, focusing particularly on global developments related to remote sensing satellites and challenges to space security and sustainability. Her book, Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data, published by MIT Press, examines trends in the development of data sharing policies governing Earth observing satellites, as well as interactions with the growing commercial remote sensing sector. Her work has been published in Science, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Space Policy, Astropolitics, and New Space, and her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA.
The Conversation
Mariel Borowitz (Public Policy)
https://theconversation.com/space-missions-are-getting-more-complex-lessons-fro…
Politico
“NASA has been trying to get humans to the moon for quite a long time,” said Mariel Borowitz, a former policy analyst at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate who now teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “The U.S. has set that goal and then changed that goal multiple times in the past couple of decades. This is really the closest that NASA has ever gotten, the most progress they’ve made since the 1960s, of actually being able to return humans to the moon.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/pressure-on-nasas-moon-mission-00054736
The Conversation
Satellites owned by private companies have played an unexpectedly important role in the war in Ukraine. For example, in early August 2022, images from the private satellite company Planet Labs showed that a recent attack on a Russian military base in Crimea caused more damage than Russia had suggested in public reports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted the losses as evidence of Ukraine’s progress in the war.
https://theconversation.com/war-in-ukraine-highlights-the-growing-strategic-imp…
NPR
MARIEL BOROWITZ: In some ways, it's less dramatic than it sounds, you know? They're saying they're going to leave, but they're going to leave in 2024. And they're going to go through this process working with partners. So it's not an immediate, abrupt departure.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/27/1113889969/russia-says-it-will-pull-out-of-the-i…
Mariel Borowitz, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, spoke on The Planetary Society's podcast, Planetary Radio, to discuss the space policy implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
An excerpt:
"I think if you look at the situation today, we don't have that same demand to try and engage with Russia [on collaboration in space]... I think it's just becoming less and less tenable to have this kind of close cooperation."
https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/mariel-borowitz-ukraine-invasion-space
Mariel Borowitz, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs was featured on, 'The Fifth Industrial Revolution VODCAST: Episode 8 w/ Dr. Mariel Borowitz | Space Policy, Satellites' posted on Oct. 13, 2021, on YouTube.
An excerpt:
In this episode of the Fifth Industrial Revolution Vodcast we speak with Georgia Tech associate professor, respected researcher and MIT graduate Dr. Mariel Borowitz on her area of expertise: Space Policy. We cover a wide range of topics in this episode touching on anything from privacy
