January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... rapidly growing volumes of spacecraft and orbital debris. This self-confessed ‘child of the Apollo generation’ and Chair of the Steering Board for the Global Network on Sustainability in Space (GNOSIS), spoke to ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive...
September 2024
Space nation issues declaration of independence
... of all branches of power, the Supreme Space Council of Asgardia, comprised Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, Head of Nation, Lembit Öpik, Chair of Parliament, Lena De Winne, Prime Minister, Yun Zhao, Supreme Justice of Asgardia, and Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Head...
20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... March 19 on Twitter that he hopes “bipartisan support for basic research will again prevail.” Spergel is the science co-chair for NASA’s planned Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST (pictured on this page), which the agency...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
...’s goal to create a sustainable space society is very important for the future of all humankind. I’m so pleased I’ve been able to chair so much progress towards that target. So go on - join our stellar adventure and help make space history. Editor...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... will rise. Highlighting the vital role of innovative regulatory leadership I launched the Space Regulatory Review and chaired the UK government’s taskforce to secure regulatory clearance for the first commercial space launch from the UK at Spaceport...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... de Paris, CNRS, France. Gerhard Kminek is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection...European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Niklas Hedman is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection, ...
