ROOM: The Space Journal is one of the major magazines on space exploration, technology and industry. At ROOM, we share a common goal – promotion of peaceful space exploration for the benefit of humankind, all while bringing you fascinating articles on an assortment,a range of current topics. Our authors include researchers and industry leaders from all over the world, which lets us bring you the newest and comprehensive information about sputnik the space race and the cold war.
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... the human race, and power our future. When someone says to be me, “Psstt, what did you do with your life?”, someday I can say I helped the International Space University, space engineers and the world’s space agencies to start thinking about inventing, building and deploying PSSTT. In the...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... movement of people is not only one way. There are UK citizens working on space-related projects in ESA, in universities and the space industry across the EU. The status post-Brexit of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU is currently uncertain. A hard Brexit is viewed by many in academia as a major threat...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...space, from a wheel-shaped station in orbit to a fleet of moonships, and later a mission to Mars. There can be no doubt that they succeeded spectacularly in showing a US public, whose lives had been dominated by Korea and the Cold War, a vision of a new frontier and...saw the dawn of the Space Age, with the launch of Sputnik 1, and we began to see the work of Second Generation artists, who could build upon the work of those who had gone before. And ...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 140-foot telescope, the NRAO Very Large Array, the Arecibo antenna, the Green Bank Telescope, and only just recently, the Deep Space Station 63 antenna from the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex. All have met with...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... of its needles, attracting the plasma particles in the atmosphere, and measures the results. With the satellite finished and headed towards its launch to the ISS at the beginning of 2017 and the release into orbit from the Space Station later in the year, Dr Meir Ariel, the director of Herzliya Science...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... to not add to the space debris cloud that already surrounds the Earth. However, if the payload mass is chosen appropriately, the boosters retain enough fuel to make it possible to lower the speed in perigee after circling the Moon and on the approach to Earth, and to enter low Earth...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...criminal liability, outlined in Article 22 of the IGA, there is also a separate code of conduct for the Space Station crew (ISS CCoC). Part I (B) defines the scope and content of the CCoC as being applicable to all ISS ...crewmembers from the time they are assigned to the crew by the competent astronaut management...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... the annual Space Generation Congress (SGC) in Israel in 2015 - organised by the UN-established SGAC every year for students and 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...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
.... Launcher technologies were developed with the goal of transporting nuclear bombs from one continent to another. As the capacities increased, the USSR and the USA became capable of sending the first satellites such as Sputnik into space in 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were...
