November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... has been well-covered in ROOM Space Journal. Currently, there are around 36,000 objects larger than 10 cm in low Earth orbit and millions of smaller fragments. This has resulted in extensive discussions among international bodies, such as the United...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
Compared to routine operations in low Earth orbit, the allure of interplanetary exploration is almost ... of law-makers, what applies on land does not yet do so in Earth orbit and beyond. By far the largest number of disputes around the world are ...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... an increase of 4.79 percent compared to 2017. The fact is that space is already crowded - and it’s getting worse. With multiple low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation launches planned in the coming months and years, the number of satellites...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
.... Upcoming crewed missions will be dramatically different from low-Earth orbital missions in both mission demands and the kind of...Architecture. Olga conducts research and design studies of orbital and surface habitats and settlements in the field ...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... key strategic sites, such as low Earth Orbit, would necessarily attain control over Earth. This is summed up in Dolman’s dictum, “Who controls low-Earth orbit controls near-Earth space. Who controls near-Earth space dominates Terra. Who dominates...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
...space as being vast, the bits that we use, particularly the areas around Earth, are actually quite constrained and fragile. Low Earth orbits (LEO), where we find Earth observation satellites and the new broadband range of satellites, is quite a small...
