10 February 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli Awarded UNESCO Medal
...the spirit of UNESCO’s priorities. Igor Ashurbeyli, ROOM: The Space Journal's editor-in-chief and Aerospace ...the non-governmental Expert Society on Aerospace Problems, AIRC founder, ROOM editor-in-chief) received the UNESCO Medal for his work in...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
...carefully opened and moved from the truck into the clean-room environment. TESS was “bagged” in the container to...at Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), the same clean room used by NASA’s Cassini, New Horizons, Mars rovers and OSIRIS...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... fact that 95 per cent of the universe is ‘hiding’ behind dark energy and dark matter gives plenty of room for hope and expectation. And, from industry, I hope to see more responsible actions to keep schedules and...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
Elon Musk, speaking to a wildly enthusiastic audience at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Mexico on 27 September 2016, has finally revealed his vision for setting up a self-sustaining human colony on the planet Mars. His starting ...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
..., Andrea, Manfred, myself and a few others were eagerly waiting for the signal in the main control room. In another building, our communications people had organised an event with ESA management, VIPs and press. We were...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... of the technical procedures that delivered Ariane 5, Europe’s most successful launcher to date. Here, in conversation with ROOM’s Managing Editor, Clive Simpson, Mr Le Gall offers his unique personal perspective on the status and future direction...
