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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...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
...space science, as it impacts not only crew survival on long-term space missions, but also the implications of contamination – from space to Earth or from Earth to space. Here, the authors describe a number of space... V.K., et al. Specificities of plasmid and chromosomal DNA exchange in microorganisms under the conditions of spaceflight. «Journal of Gravitational Physiology» 2010,17,1, 14-18. 9. T.L. Goins, K.S. Lim, A.M. Smith, S.C. Broadaway, T. ...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...Union’s leading institution on the problems of Space Biology and Medicine on the initiative of the Designer General, Sergei Korolev and the President of the Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, with the active involvement ..., IBMP experts - in collaboration with related institutions and organisations of the Russian Space Agency and the Academy of Sciences - have scientifically substantiated, developed and put into practice a system of spaceflight...
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...
April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
...multiple disciplines, including biomedicine, space technology, ethics, law, geopolitics and space business. Malaysian Prime Minister YAB Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the Minister of Science and Innovation celebrate the ...that researches and enables the conditions for human reproduction in space, while improving IVF on Earth. Egbert is passionate about accelerating space life science research, helping humanity beyond the next frontier by becoming a...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...enough to scale up the elevator, e.g., to 1000 mt payload. Unfortunately, very little activity of the Space Elevator community is directed to tether maintenance or growth, although, e.g., the automated replacement of railroad tracks..., vol. 152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings,...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...from 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 ...has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...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 ...space agencies. About the author Anthony Freeman joined NASA’s JPL in 1987 and is now manager of JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science and Astrophysics...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
...L5 orbit. The UK’s contribution includes two key instruments: a plasma analyser built by the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and a magnetometer developed at Imperial College London. Together, they will characterise the speed, ...‘Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms’, ROOM Space Journal, Spring 2025, #36]. “This is not just a space problem,” said Denis Bensoussan of Beazley Insurance, who was a member of the media...
