March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... turn to the year 1959. At the California Institute of Technology Richard Feynman presented a lecture entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” The legendary physicist challenged scientists and engineers to win a prize of $1,000 USD of his own...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
...a patented process that locks the constituents onto the surface at room temperature. It is UV stable, conductive, tolerant to both high...Solar Orbiter mechanical and thermal model in the clean room at the test facility in Germany. Careful thruster ...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
...incredible opportunity became an amazing clinical tool. Imagine walking into the room of a patient, a child, who is fighting for their ... paints. The suit and paints were taken to patient’s rooms in the MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital, and we ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...an unobstructed view of the night sky, there is room for some optimism. Satellite constellation operators have been eager...piece by David Galadi-Enriquez in the last issue of ROOM: “Satellite mega-constellations threaten ground-based astronomy” [Spring...
