August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... starting point for much-needed international cooperation on issues affecting the space environment. A stack of smallsats in low Earth orbit. Ecological paradigm Users of space need to consider the impact of their activities upon the unique and...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
