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 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... change. Working with the existing expertise of the regulators at the HSE and CAA is a sensible use of resources and will provide the UK Space Agency with much needed support in the regulation of the emerging multi-sectored space industry. The changing nature of space activity, intersecting air and space law, meant...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... bring us closer to the answer to one of the most basic scientific questions: the origin and provenance of life in the universe. About the author Kostas Konstantinidis is a space systems engineer focusing on GN&C, robotics, and autonomy to enable the in-situ astrobiological exploration of the ocean worlds of the solar system. He is currently...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... were chosen from military test pilots. By the time of the Space Shuttle, astronaut safety was so ‘routine’ that stunts like the teacher in space were considered ‘safe enough’. The Challenger and Columbia disasters showed the consequences of misplaced confidence in NASA’s approach to system...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race.” Broad scope In the not too distant future, we will outgrow our... space efforts in 1958, during the Cold War and immediately following the USSR’s success with Sputnik. The settlement of space was not on its radar at the time – matching and surpassing the Russians was the most immediate concern. Science and exploration...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... broadcast backbone for blockchains. It is a space race without a real end-goal, leading to the unreasonable use of precious resources, from the radio spectrum and orbital slots to raw materials and the time of brilliant young engineers. The perspective for the day after tomorrow is even...
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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... 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 energy of rockets in LEO while it climbs on the tether to GEO. The power on a Space...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
...its entire history. The arid and cold planet that we see today could thus be a consequence of the events that followed the formation of the martian dichotomy and despite the optimistic views of many scientists, the water inventory of the planet may not ... on Mars and might be trapped in the polar caps along with CO2. If this is the case, then these numbers represent a significant setback for many scientists and wealthy space enthusiasts who ...
