ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the major 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 incisive articles on a variety of contemporary topics. Our authors include researchers and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and accurate information about journal space weather space climate.
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... Pence has acknowledged that “making sure that we have the security in space to advance human space exploration is the underpinning of the Space Force”. Human space exploration in this context is a euphemism for private enterprise, as bluntly ... war that has plagued us throughout human history. The global community resolved early in the Space Age that space was not to become just another battlefield. Disputes would be resolved peaceably, on Earth, ...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... sanctions and consequent devastating inflation, Iran is on the verge of an economic abyss. Space analyst Henk Smid describes how Iranian spaceflight is entangled with international policy towards Iran’s nuclear... a launch weight of about 27 tonnes; it is capable of placing 50 kg satellites into 300 km orbits. A second space launch vehicle developed by Iran is the Simorgh, a two-stage liquid propellant rocket for launching 250 kg satellites...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... particular way. Opportunities that demonstrate attainability, by highlighting the variety of careers paths available in the space sector, are incredibly important. The Skype a Scientist programme, for example, gives students who may never... data interpretation, software development and scientific writing. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) have branches around the world, running a variety of outreach events, competitions ...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... and empathise with their colleagues? Soft skills literature, including space-focused sources such as the Space Skills Alliance ‘Space Skills Literature Library’ (https://spaceskills.org/library), indicate that... report from SpaceTech Analytics (STA), a strategic analytics agency focused on markets in the Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Space Medicine, and Satellite Tech industries, there are 10,000 SpaceTech related companies, 5000 leading ...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... the failure of the Long March rocket carrying Intelsat-708 on 15 February 1996. Transactional space collaboration China’s space sector began in earnest with the launch of the country’s first satellite to reach orbit,...[International] Cooperation”, which include global governance of outer space, manned [human] spaceflight, satellite navigation, deep-space exploration, space technology, applications and space science. In short, a lot of support for ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... and connecting the world in ways that would otherwise not be possible. We utilise space to accurately predict weather, perform disaster relief, and support national security and military functions, keeping our citizens ...and funding for DoD to start a pilot programme to buy, test and evaluate commercial weather data and services. Realigning space exploration Space exploration is an important part of the United States’ leadership in the world. When...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... orbital advertising displays - purely in order to be seen from Earth is not expressly prohibited under international space law. Where the law might be of assistance in regulating pollution is on a national level. Under ... also worth remembering that, while regulators will be mindful of the environmental impact of their nation’s space activity, there are also significant economic considerations at play. It is by no means certain that regulators...
September 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
... addition to EOR satellites, protecting the growing number of assets in space requires a greater understanding of space weather effects in general. This includes understanding how space weather can lead to various anomalies onboard spacecraft, as well as how ... as the Van Allen Probes, along with ground instrumentation near Earth’s poles, space weather researchers at the British Antarctic Survey continue to work towards these goals by developing...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
...scientific breakthroughs that will allow our lives in space and space exploration to manifest and flourish. Regardless of conflicting arguments and opinions on topics like climate change and the source of its mechanisms, human... know there’s at least one advanced civilization, with a propensity for destroying species, ecosystems, atmospheres and weather patterns, perhaps entire planets, and it happens to live on Earth. Spreading out may be the only...
