January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
Elon Musk, speaking to a wildly enthusiastic audience at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Mexico on 27 September 2016, has finally revealed his vision for setting up a self-sustaining human colony on ...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
Adelaide will host the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) this September - the biggest conference in the global space community’s annual calendar [1]. Australia, and particularly ...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...it knowingly transferred title to another. It does not base its ownership claim on a specific unambiguous law passed by Congress, but instead asserts its title claim through a series of administrative directives issued by NASA. Apparently, no foreign...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... Act, wherein launch standards are based on ‘voluntary industry consensus standards’. Progress reports are being submitted to Congress every 30 months until December 2021 when findings will be revisited and fed into future US space policy...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
... Rashid Space Centre, met up with ROOM’s managing editor Clive Simpson during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, to discuss some of the foreword-looking and far-reaching ambitions of the United Arab...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... ‘conversational’ article, PJ Blount and Michael Dodge - who both presented papers during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) session on the plight of refugees - examine the opportunities and challenges of using space-based data for...
