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February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...regions of the oceans, or outer space and our planetary neighbours, travellers have used books and magazine articles to document their adventures. In this article, adapted from Foreword to Spaceflight: An Illustrated Bibliography... rockets. He published his seminal monograph, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, in 1919 through the Smithsonian Institution and launched the first liquid-fuel rocket on 16 March 1926. Sharing a vision What began ...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... Hazards”, Room, Winter/Spring, 2016, pp 11-15. 4 Joseph N. Pelton, “Protecting Earth and A Better Way to Mars” Space Safety Magazine January 13, 2016 5 http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-hazards/space-weather/protecting-earth-and-a-better-way...
28 May 2016
Editor-in-chief speaks at international space lawyers’ conference
...-related articles, looking at future challenges, space resources policy and the legality of mining in outer space. It is available online or in printed format via the ‘subscription’ page on this website. Editor-in-Chief Igor Ashurbeyli signed preview copies...
02 December 2014
Feats of humanity
It is my pleasure to present to you the second issue of ROOM, the space magazine. During the past months, our young publication has come a long way both creatively and literally. ... that was held 14-20 July in Farnborough (Great Britain). Several thousand Airshow attendees got a chance to see the magazine, among them those from leading world aerospace corporations, SMEs, airlines and space agencies from various...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...interested parties (such as emergency services, agencies, etc), or publishing the information in special scientific or departmental online publications. Indeed, this is what the MASTER network was developed to do In 2002, the first Russian... search for new, uncatalogued objects and final data transmission. The latter is accomplished either online or through other robots, including robots of the MASTER network, control systems and international ...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...little or no cell tower connectivity at all. As a result any on-board IoT device can’t be consistently online and won’t transmit valuable data. Two 6U nano-satellites were launched by NanoAvionics in April 2019, one ...signalled a dramatic jump in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack threats - attempts to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. The huge amount of high-throughput satellites and...
14 June 2021
Space sector prepares for Sustainability Summit
...reviewed by an independent judging panel. Challenges were then set for space industry representatives to address during online workshops running throughout May. Three broad themes were identified, with one calling for a holistic, internationally... that have taken place so far.” Findings from the initiative are to be showcased at the free online Sustainable Space Summit on 23 June. The event will also highlight the many benefits that accessing space...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
.... He created the Go Taikonauts! (www.go-taikonauts.com) website in 1998 and is co-founder and contributor to the Go Taikonauts! electronic magazine. He thanks Jacqueline Myrrhe and William Carey for valuable opinions and support during writing of this article.
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... of the geostationary Earth orbit satellite was first popularised by Arthur C. Clarke in a 1945 article published in Wireless World magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their use to create a global communications...
