ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the leading magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common dream – promotion of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you fascinating articles on an assortment,a range of interesting topics. Our authors include scientists and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and detailed information about advances in space science journal.
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background and the key technologies of the...optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission on 30 January 2020, with a backdrop depicting...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections... they provide a valuable source of spatial information. Specifically, remote sensing provides support in advanced warning, disaster monitoring, damage evaluation and, therefore, in decision-making processes and event ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
..., J. Carroll, E. Levin and J. Oldson, “ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator (EDDE): Design, Operation, and Ground Support,” in Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Maui, HI, 2010. 16 B. M. Wiegmann, “The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS), First...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... settlers too, are currently to be found in classrooms around the world. And as our world embraces space science and space exploration on a whole new level, it is imperative that we address the question: “How will we... team. For companies like STEAMSPACE Education OutreachTM, incorporating STEAM for youth in Space Education is the guiding principle. In addition to science, technology, engineering and maths, the arts, and design in particular, will...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... the political aspects of any activity in or to do with outer space. No activity escapes politics, not even international cooperation in space science. Who cooperates with whom, why, and on what terms is political... space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy and advises practitioners on space...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... forecast reliably using solar wind measurements from satellites such as NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) or NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). These satellites orbit in a near-Earth location about... Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder. Dr Nair’s research interests include geomagnetic field processing ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...were paralleled by the United States which had lower launch rates but fielded more technically advanced systems sooner. This situation in which the two super-powers matched one another did not...-war constitution, confirmed by Japan’s Diet in 1969, ruled that space was exclusively for peaceful purposes, so Japan developed a successful programme of space science, exploration, applications and human spaceflight accordingly. This changed following the ...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... developed the MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space science community. Two MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to launch on the same rocket as InSight in May 2018, but ... eventually open up the outer solar system to free-flying nanosat missions. Looking forward The future for space science using small spacecraft looks bright. We are clearly at the bottom of the growth curve but the ...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...together the wonder of space, science and art. As we push forward to launching new spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and on to the Moon and Mars, and as more commercial activities develop in space, it’s important that the...it from a slightly different perspective though, you quickly appreciate the complexity that exists - the science that goes into creating such a remarkable machine. Everywhere you look in this picture, whether ...
