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...
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 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... legal groundwork that will help us provide this protection. Low Earth orbit is the most concentrated area for orbital debris with approximately 95 per cent of objects shown here being orbital debris rather than functional satellites. The threat from...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... virtual reality for example, the world would be a better place. Just as we are reaching the threshold of leaving low Earth orbit to populate the solar system, are we also now entering a ‘post-overview effect world’, in which humanity is increasingly...
