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 fascinating articles on an assortment,a range of trending topics. Our authors include experts and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the newest and comprehensive information about sputnik the space potato.
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... fortunate children to become future space professionals. Despite the constancy of the need to provide a skilled workforce, the space industry has encountered a number of major disruptions. Disruption 1: remote working Despite the constancy of the need to provide a skilled workforce, the space industry has encountered a number...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... by motion of the tether. The sling example just leaves out the gravity force on the Space Elevator. The planet, or other celestial body, with the base-anchor provides the rotation and the orbital kinetic energy for the payloads. The payload never requires the high kinetic...
January 2019
Industry 4.0 will revolutionise the space market
...this article, the authors highlight the relative immaturity of the space industry in the field and argue for the adoption of Industry 4.0 standards. Despite the momentum of NewSpace alongside other rapid changes in the space industry, some...to be wary of new approaches. As a result, the business layer of the space market is still very immature. Technologically, the introduction of Industry 4.0 into the space sector is not that far away, but it must...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... exciting and rewarding career in the space sector. At the birth of the Space Age, the USSR and the United States were the only nations involved, with funding largely provided by the government and with a small number...as well as our aspirations to explore the universe. Space in the classroom Opportunities that demonstrate attainability, by highlighting the variety of careers paths available in the space sector, are incredibly important Today there...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... Board, was named one of the world’s top ‘space visionaries’ and in the top one hundred most influential space people by Space News. Winner of the 2015 World Technology Award, he Founded Deep Space Industries, a space resources company, co-founded the Space Frontier Foundation, was a founding...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... year (2021) was a breakthrough year in the space industry. It witnessed the first all-civilian spaceflight, three successful missions to Mars, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a record US$12.4 billion investment of private capital in the space ecosystem, an increase of more than 60 percent...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... tension between the United States and the USSR led to the space race. Space was the new field of competition in a battle of ideologies. The initial venue for this competition was the International Geophysical... speculative nonfiction on human spaceflight published since the early 1900s. After the launch of Sputnik, the number of books about spaceflight increased significantly as people around the world sought information on efforts to explore this...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... 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 individual paintings by children at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... young professionals between age of 18 and 35 - students and young professionals representing 14 countries participated in the Space Internet Working Group which investigated the possibilities, risks and opportunities of using satellites, drones and high-altitude balloons to provide widespread...
