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September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
...the ability of governments and regulators to keep up. In this thought-provoking opinion piece for ROOM Space Journal, former UK Science Minister and Member of the British Parliament George Freeman argues for a bold...most profound challenges to international governance in the 21st century. From space debris to space traffic control, lunar mineral rights to astronaut health, the space sector is rapidly creating new opportunities - and threats - which...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... a ‘10th anniversary review’ of the Ideas programme in 2018 and the ISS kit was born. Apollo lunar module on a Lego Moon. Photo: M. Williamson Practicalities The Saturn V kit represents a pinnacle in ‘Lego... 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 ...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
...increase competitiveness, enhance security and embed sustainability at the core of space operations. Against this backdrop, the Forum provided ROOM Space Journal with a firsthand insight into how Europe plans to redefine its role...’ programme, which includes the Argonaut lunar lander and new cargo return vehicles. These projects position Europe as a serious actor in the in-space economy and deep space logistics. Launch capability remains a linchpin...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...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... Astronautica, 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,...
February 2023
The scientific basis for lunar helium-3 production
... on the Earth are widely known and described in numerous scientific publications. However, their applicability to lunar conditions, and in particular to the extraction of helium-3 (helion) from regolith, requires further scientific...Zarya module. It was convincingly confirmed that terrestrial microorganisms not only survived in outer space, but also retained high biological activity, with the aggressive properties of microorganisms increasing under...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... land on the Moon. As of October 2018, it has raised US$12.5 million for its plan for lunar exploration and development, which includes sending a small spacecraft to the Moon. It plans to follow this with... interpretation 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 ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... My recollections are of building Airfix scale models of the Saturn V and the weird and wonderful Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels that found their niche against .... In 2018 he became the UKSA’s Chief Scientist. He retired in 2020 and continues to advocate on Space and Astronomy matters. He is a visiting Professor with the University of Leicester and a member of ROOM Space Journal’s Editorial Board.
16 March 2018
CSUN undergraduate published in Room, The Space Journal
... and a few other SGAC members, Perez co-authored an article recently published in Room, The Space Journal. Perez worked alongside Ph.D. candidates and was the only undergraduate student on this publication. Enabling Private...the point of view of the millennial generation, gave Perez the opportunity to write about the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which she writes, “demonstrates a willingness by the U.S. government to allow innovation...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
...that provide additional ground truth to complement orbiter datasets, to the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This should become clear at the... upcoming ESA Ministerial conference in November 2019, where new budgets for European space activities – including lunar exploration missions – will be allocated. Maximum temperatures of Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) at the...
