ROOM: The Space magazine 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 fascinating articles on a variety of current topics. Our authors include analysts and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the most up-to-date and detailed information about space science journals.
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background and the key technologies of the...optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission on 30 January 2020, with a backdrop depicting...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... settlers too, are currently to be found in classrooms around the world. And as our world embraces space science and space exploration on a whole new level, it is imperative that we address the question: “How will we... team. For companies like STEAMSPACE Education OutreachTM, incorporating STEAM for youth in Space Education is the guiding principle. In addition to science, technology, engineering and maths, the arts, and design in particular, will...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...from scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections ...has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...enough 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 tracks..., 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,...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... developed the MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space science community. Two MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to launch on the same rocket as InSight in May 2018, but ... eventually open up the outer solar system to free-flying nanosat missions. Looking forward The future for space science using small spacecraft looks bright. We are clearly at the bottom of the growth curve but the ...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
...Levin, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin subsidiary GEOshare, and co-founder of XM Radio and the MILO Space Science Institute. Levin is also interested in how people make money from their ideas and get strangers to ...sometimes a little too quickly, but certain things really do disrupt how business is being done. The MILO Space Science Institute is also revolutionary. There’s nothing like a MILO out there, because up until now, everyone assumed...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... the depths of its storms, you can ‘see’ lightning storms underneath this dynamic surface”. Because space science can be challenging to visualize, the use of new digital and experimental tools and mediums are important... Interstellar Art. In his spare time, Wael volunteers as Outreach Coordinator with the Planetary Society, promoting space science and STEM education in Europe and the Middle East. He also enjoys photography, reading and ambient pop...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
...together the wonder of space, science and art. As we push forward to launching new spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and on to the Moon and Mars, and as more commercial activities develop in space, it’s important that the...it from a slightly different perspective though, you quickly appreciate the complexity that exists - the science that goes into creating such a remarkable machine. Everywhere you look in this picture, whether ...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...boards have become central to job placement in the data science industry. DSCOVR, launched in 2015, was the USA’s first operational satellite in deep space. It is now part of America’s primary warning system... Administration (NOAA). He has extensive experience facilitating space environmental information exchange; calibrating and validating space weather products; and stakeholder use-inspired science. He is currently the lead for the National...
