ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the prominent 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 throughly researched articles on a plethora of contemporary topics. Our authors include academics and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the newest and detailed information about Room Space.
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...rose-tinted recollection. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant 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 ...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
The opportunity to create a new space museum from scratch will strike most readers as an exciting but daunting prospect: how would you even start? Glen Nagle tells ROOM readers how he met the professional challenge of ...What do you do if you’re given the chance to build a space museum that will be visited by tens of thousands of people, but all you have to start with is a few virtually empty rooms with walls covered in blue, Velcro-like carpet...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
...I recently led and developed a project commissioned by Thales Alenia Space for a new spaceship. It looked at a recreational space, with more room for astronauts’ entertainment, aimed at emphasising the Italian style ... 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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... ready advice for governments on space security: Defence IQ recently published its Space Operations Summit Market Report 2022, a country-by-country review of military space programmes. Fresh room must be found on bookshelves for... its rapidly-expanding literature, like Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, and the...
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...and can hold its shape across a range of temperatures - important considering the segments were built at room temperature, but the telescope will operate at around -230C. Each mirror is equipped with seven actuators ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
.... So, how did this wonderful discovery come about? You might recall in the last issue of ROOM, we featured the story of the Space Suit Art Project. HOPE - the first of the art suits - was created from the... to the Moon and when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...is a prudent, efficient and strong global governance - including a robust space governance system. By global space governance we mean a collection of space-related international binding agreements and non-binding guidelines (and codes of conduct...broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...could cause potentially mission-altering consequences. Given that a huge number of satellites, as well as the International Space Station (ISS), operate in LEO, it is hardly surprising that the proliferation of debris is of major ...collection of key pieces of the material culture of spaceflight and science. [See also ROOM #22, Winter 2019/20 – ‘Preserving our space heritage’ by Stuart Eves]. Such an orbital museum would come with enormous costs, ...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...lit by the ambiguous treaty provisions became a fire. Legality of space resource uilisation The lack of vital definitions in the space treaties leaves room for various conflicting interpretations, most of which can be logically reasoned...and private interests. Whether a regulatory solution is on the horizon or not, the debate on space resources governance is definitely here to stay, especially given the time-consuming procedures involved. Serious ...
