April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... recoverable launch vehicle. Raúl Verdú, Chief Business Development Officer for PLD Space, spoke to Daniel Smith for ROOM. Raul Verdu Congratulations on the launch in October [2023]. What did this milestone mean for you as a company...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
As widely reported in various issues of ROOM, many current international space conferences cover the important topic of space sustainability, and space experts devote ...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... been successfully used by the US government for over 40 horizontal launch missions. At this summer’s Farnborough International Airshow, ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson held a joint conversation with three of the company’s leaders, Kevin Seymour...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
... density, a 3658 m x 61 m runway, a vertical launch area, and it averages about 340 days of sunshine and low humidity. ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson met up with Scott McLaughlin, Spaceport America’s Executive Director, at this year’s Space...
October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
...It will do this via immersive therapy, medical education and clinical assessments using the simulation of operating rooms, medical equipment or human anatomy. In fact, the Metaverse has already stimulated a remarkable surge in healthcare applications...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... an everyday ‘moment of rupture’ which sets off deep reflections about the journey ahead. Her article for ROOM, an edited extract from Ground Control, raises a series of tough questions for the commercial space industry and...
