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July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... plans is to place a small observatory on the south pole of the Moon comprising of both a combined radio astronomy/communications payload and an optical telescope in order to conduct astrophysical studies from our nearest celestial neighbour. This... pledge ‘In Peace for All’. ILOA and SPC have produced more than 20 First Woman on the Moon articles for public use through Space Calendar and Lunar Enterprise Daily, as well as a ‘Women in Space and...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... oceans, or outer space and our planetary neighbours, travellers have used books and magazine articles to document their adventures. In this article, adapted from Foreword to Spaceflight: An Illustrated Bibliography of pre-1958 Books on ... editorial guidance of Cornelius Ryan, published a series of articles in Collier’s magazine in 1952-54 that envisioned the coming space age. These articles were later published in book form, including Across the ...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
.... He created the Go Taikonauts! (www.go-taikonauts.com) website in 1998 and is co-founder and contributor to the Go Taikonauts! electronic magazine. He thanks Jacqueline Myrrhe and William Carey for valuable opinions and support during writing of this...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
Last week marked the annual UK National Astronomy Meeting (NAM), held each year at a different academic institution. This year, it was the turn of the University of ...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... and more than 40 per cent of European ISS experiments come from German research institutions. Over 1400 articles have been published in scientific journals since 2001 in the context of the DLR Space Administration programme ‘Research...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
...satellite constellations, it will take time to understand the effect thousands of additional satellites will have on astronomy at optical and radio wavelengths.” As pointed out, not only will mega-constellations have the potential ... consortium. If you've enjoyed reading this article, please consider subscribing to ROOM Space Journal to gain immediate and full access to the latest magazine feature articles and receive your own print and/or digital...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... wave radio receiving stations in some of the best radio reception areas in the solar system. Now radio astronomy is making a comeback, it is time to make a start on safeguarding these scientifically critical areas - especially as lunar exploration is gathering pace... of Physics and published ‘Defending the lunar landscape’ in the July 2019 issue of the IOP’s Physics World magazine.
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...law. Where the law might be of assistance in regulating pollution is on a national level. Under Article VI of the OST, states bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, whether carried ...stakeholders. There is a clear absence of any international agreement guiding satellite operators to consider ground-based astronomy, or the sustainability of the night sky. However, UN COPUOS has recently adopted Long-Term ...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...so in the promise of capabilities that could be brought about by smallsat systems and architectures. Forbes magazine reported that US$2.5 billion has been invested in the commercial smallsat industry in the past 10 years,... major government and commercial programmes, including mission integration for numerous government space missions. This article is an adaptation of the paper presented at the 2015 Reinventing Space Conference. References 1Dillow,...
