ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the major magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common goal – promotion of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you throughly researched articles on a plethora of contemporary topics. Our authors include scientists and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the newest and accurate information about hubble space backgrounds.
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to... areas that seemed like the gates of Hell itself. In deep space - the province of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded but only provided...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... the regulations) but now awaiting the inevitability of atmospheric drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest option The threat posed by debris within the...the United Kingdom Rocketry Association for over a decade. He draws on a rich background encompassing the science, education and archaeology sectors to write on a variety of space subjects and cover his passion for the preservation...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
...we would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding ... to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...the beginning of the twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520...but I prefer the one that emphasises the responsibility of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and accept the burden of ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks to the cosmos rather than down on...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... NASA’s Great 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 Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was a team member on the high resolution spectrograph, which was one of the ...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build on Hubble’s rich legacy and even to work side-by-side with ...mirror in place and smaller ones caused by the edges of the segmented mirror. However, the background hides the true cosmic treasures - hundreds of previously undiscovered galaxies, their stellar light shifted into...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
..., inclusivity is a dominant theme in the mind of the space industry. Since its inception in 2015, STEAMSPACE has averaged 60 percent female enrolment, and high diversity in ethnicity and economic background. Part of the STEAMSPACE mission is to break down those...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...Jupiter which is 8.6 km in diameter, has an absolute magnitude of 21 and the visible light limit of the Hubble Space Telescope is 32. The angular speed of movement can reach 20-50 degrees per second. In recent years, the MASTER ...and accelerated expansion of the Universe occurs, will allow Russia to participate in the leading research of vacuum space energy. Discovery of further objects of the Universe at distances of z >10 by using fast-alert ...
