February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... material culture of spaceflight and science. [See also ROOM #22, Winter 2019/20 – ‘Preserving our space heritage’ by Stuart Eves]. Such an orbital museum would come with enormous costs, but it is not impossible to foresee advances in technology and...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (with camera) and Evgeny Tarelkin aboard the International Space Station on Christmas Eve 2012. But images such as this, that encapsulate space as a realm where humans work together in the pursuit...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... a collision between two large bodies in the asteroid belt is unique in the last 3–4 billion years,” says Pavel Ševeček, a PhD student at the Astronomical Institute of Charles University who also participated in the study. With advances in numerical...
04 February 2018
Space Traffic Control
Space traffic control – the title of this book – has become a space-related catch phrase of the early 21st century. Its earthbound sister is the far-better-known air traffic control (ATC), which evokes airports, radars and controllers staring into ...
