January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...Space Station operations at ESA, and in 2020 became ESA’s ISS Programme Manager. Kirill Pletner, Editor-in-Chief of ROOM’s sister publication Aerospace Sphere Journal, caught up with Frank De Winne to obtain his perspective on human space exploration...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... Earth means to those intrepid human beings. This article, originally published in 2015 in one of the first issues of ROOM (#5), has been reimagined and updated by William Gerstenmaier, a highly respected elder statesman of the global space industry...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... Manager of Space Services. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, at the company’s UK headquarters, office and manufacturing facility, he spoke to ROOM’s Editor-in Chief Clive Simpson about Spire’s highly successful role in disrupting the global space business...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... published its Space Operations Summit Market Report 2022, a country-by-country review of military space programmes. Fresh room must be found on bookshelves for its rapidly-expanding literature, like Bleddyn Bowen’s War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
..., raises challenging questions for the long-term sustainability of space activities. In this Special Report for ROOM, Peter Martinez, Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation, proposes a multifaceted approach to address a problem that...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... work, a varied role ranging from developing sustainability standards to leading a national debris removal mission, is Ray Fielding. ROOM Editor-in-Chief, Clive Simpson caught up with him after his participation in the Secure World Foundation’s ‘5th...
