February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... prospect: how would you even start? Glen Nagle tells ROOM readers how he met the professional challenge of building such ...but all you have to start with is a few virtually empty rooms with walls covered in blue, Velcro-like carpet, very few resources...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... the Space Zone at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow where ROOM Editor Mark Williamson spoke to Pradeep Dass, President & CTO... vehicles, known as HELLO-1 and HELLO-2. Speaking to ROOM on the company’s eye-catching FIA stand (shared with...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... the nation is home to a commercial satellite launch vehicle company called INNOSPACE, which is entirely venture-capital funded. ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson (right) with INNOSPACE Chief Global Business Officer, Win Marshall Bronzewall, during...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
...-supported structure in places, partly to account for a rover that’s 150 kilograms heavier, said Tice, in an interview for ROOM. Lockheed Martin built the aeroshell at its factory in Littleton, Colorado. The company has made the aeroshells...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...with hardly anyone to teach us how to do it. The Main Control Room at ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt (2002) Towards the end...with a realistic and stable simulator? Rosetta Dedicated Control Room in 2001 The break-through was the decision by...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... I was now, for the first time, flight director for Rosetta. The tension in the main control room was high when at 03:13 we lost the radio signal as the spacecraft disappeared behind Mars. We knew that two...
