April 2025
Space Elevators - a role in planetary defence?
... space elevator emerged in 2020, the necessity of an active transportation node at the ‘apex anchor’ became obvious. This article describes how it could become a full-service transportation node and provide an ideal location for a rapid response...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... you pump it outward with an electrically conductive space elevator on the far side of the Moon But this article is about the much longer term, assuming that we grow up enough to solve our current problems and care...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... day-to-day problems. Let’s decide now, it is time! If you would like to submit a short opinion, letter or comment article to ROOM please send it via email to: Clive Simpson, Managing Editor - clive_simpson@room.eu.com.
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... the largest number of disputes around the world are territorial and since prevailing space legislation, particularly Article I and II of the Outer Space Treaty 1967, forbid claims to sovereignty in space, it would seem to make sense to drop...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... (CNES) where he is an expert in charge of ethical aspect of space activities. If you would like to submit an opinion, letter or comment article to ROOM please contact or send via email to: Clive Simpson, Managing Editor - clive_simpson@room.eu.com
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... frustrating illusion”. Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society, while broadly supportive of Musk’s initiative, devoted an article in The New Atlantis to describing how he would correct the “conceptual flaws” of Musk’s “extremely sub-optimal...
