August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... in space missions. As a company, SNC has been to space more than 400 times and its contribution to NASA’s InSight probe marks the 14th mission to Mars. SNC’s largest investment to date is the Dream Chaser® spacecraft, a spaceplane...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... was formed. Planetary physicist Johannes Benkoff, who has been working on the project for 10 years, provides an insight into this ground-breaking mission. BepiColombo is Europe’s first mission to explore planet Mercury, the least explored...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... or a tortoise’s carapace - could affect which animals live and pass on their traits to future generations. But Darwin’s insights went much further. He reasoned that the same processes that had given rise to the animals on the...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... physiology and medicine data achieved as part of flight and ground-based experiments have significantly expanded our insights into human physiological capabilities, allowing new options to develop alongside unique equipment offering self-sufficiency...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... no longer ignore the role of the magnetic field. For example, high-quality polarisation measurements have provided insights into astrophysical environments from collapsing clouds, where stars and planets are forming, to galactic disks, where...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... at the core of space operations. Against this backdrop, the Forum provided ROOM Space Journal with a firsthand insight into how Europe plans to redefine its role in the global space economy. For years, Europe’s space...
