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...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
Around the world space agencies have tight budgets. National legislatures are pressed for a wide range of vital services. More recently, private space commerce, known as ‘new space’ seem to offer lower cost services. NASA, ESA, CNES, DLR, JAXA, CNSA...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... nor of any present or former employer. If you would like to submit an opinion, letter or comment article for publication in ROOM please contact or send via email to: Clive Simpson, Managing Editor - clive_simpson...
