April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
As a key player in both European and international space activities for several decades, Spain has often punched above its weight, so I was pleased to meet up at the Small Satellites & Services International Forum in Malaga in February with Carlos ...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
A solar storm is a sudden and intense burst of radiation and energetic particles ejected from the Sun. If large enough and directed toward Earth, the resulting ‘space weather’ has the potential to severely damage critical infrastructure, causing ...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
As Europe enters a defining phase of its space ambitions, the fifth European Space Forum unfolded in Brussels in July, just weeks after the European Commission launched its long-anticipated EU Space Act. This timing was no coincidence – it seemed to...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
With a final funding green light anticipated at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial meeting this November, Europe stands poised to launch its most ambitious space weather mission yet. Vigil will monitor space weather from the Lagrange Point L5 ...
16 October 2020
When Simpson met Simpson
...ROOM’s upcoming Winter issue, and ROOM Managing Editor Clive Simpson enjoyed an opportunity to meet for a coffee ...is an ever smaller place than we imagine,” he added. Charles Simpson’s article ‘Orbital debris - junk versus heritage’ will appear in the...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... analysis underscores the urgent need for resilience and governance in this new era of spaceflight. Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson sets the scene in his Foreword, describing the sector as entering a “season of reckoning.” With the European Space...
