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...
28 May 2016
Editor-in-chief speaks at international space lawyers’ conference
... international law, and international humanitarian law with respect to conflict avoidance in outer space. The current edition of ‘ROOM - The Space Journal’ is themed with a number of space law-related articles, looking at future challenges, space...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
... in the centre of the Milky Way is almost entirely due to the Sgr A* black hole, leaving very little room for anything else. “We are very grateful to Gemini Observatory, whose GNIRS instrument gave us the critical information...
