ROOM: The Space magazine is one of the prominent magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common goal – advancement of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you fascinating articles on a variety of current topics. Our authors include scientists and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you timely and detailed information about journal space occupying lesion.
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...Lego-building (see Practicalities). The third model of note commemorates the International Space Station, which has now been occupied continuously for two decades, since the launch of the first component in... and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six ...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... Hohmann transfer orbits, so a hidden ASAT would not require much additional fuel to attack many different space targets. And it is unlikely that any nation would be willing to manoeuvre their ‘inspector satellites’ ... ‘Moon Patrols’. Example statistics of ‘lost’ space objects by orbital altitude and RADAR cross section (RCS). Another technique to obscure potential threat satellites is to occupy unusual orbits. High inclination Molniya-type orbits,...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... hardly improved: following the expansion of the space scale, it is the temporal scale that has undergone a tragic extension for those who hoped and believed that humanity occupied a singular place within reality. We are... 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 ...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several aviation and space law focused journals, is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, is the Chair of the Legal Technical Committee with the American Institute of Aeronautics...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... of ‘the mankind provisions’ has thus reached an impasse and, according to former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, Prof Joanne Gabrynowitz, it is “now primarily a political problem and... therefore, only subject to ...a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit ...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
...to New Orbital InfrastructureRecreational/Habitable Configuration designed by Annalisa Dominoni and Benedetto Quaquaro for Thales Alenia Space. About the author Annalisa Dominoni is an architect, designer and professor at Politecnico di Milano...has chaired international symposia and workshops on design for outer space and has written books and published numerous papers in scientific journals. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... the military uses of outer 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 security and defence policy...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... around nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary 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... expanding, swelling like a giant balloon. Everything is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined with the finite speed of light this ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve1968. Nothing compares to the actual experience of being in outer space. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt’s biggest regret is that he couldn’t have stayed longer on... potential as a blossoming commercial enterprise, there may be some good existential reasons why commercial space, in particular space tourism, may be an important link in humanity’s long-term survival. An immediate benefit ...
