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...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
..., cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could jeopardise multibillion-dollar assets and critical global infrastructure. This article dissects these emerging challenges and charts a course for developing resilient security frameworks and international...
November 2025
Unlocking the secrets of Europa
... planet’s gravitational pull to alter the spacecraft’s path on its way to the Jupiter system. Editor’s Note This article is based on an interview conducted by Steve Kelly at the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) in New York in the spring of 2025...
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...
