October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... of Blue Origin, which aims to become a major player in the future space launch business. In this article - based on his keynote lecture at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June - he provides a personal perspective on the company, where...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
...exploration. After years of non-participation in human spaceflight (HSF), the image of the four astronauts attending the UK Space Conference (UKSC) in Manchester this summer was a huge contrast to the pre-2009 situation. Historically, the UK has been...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... understood natural threats to our critical systems,” said Giuseppe Mandorlo, ESA’s Vigil project manager, speaking at the UK Space Conference (UKSC) in Manchester in July. “Vigil will give us a new, much-needed vantage point on the Sun, enabling...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...sustainability is undoubtedly a topic of growing importance, as shown by the amount of attention given to it at space conferences in the past few years. The term “space sustainability” has only come into general use within the last 10 years or so and...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
...in various issues of ROOM, many current international space conferences cover the important topic of space sustainability, and space experts devote many hours to space debris mitigation or removal. Space professionals and some governments are eagerly...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... all its idiosyncrasies, the International Astronautical Congress remains, arguably, the world’s most diverse and multidisciplinary space conference and, for many, is their annual ‘must attend event’. Indeed, some of us IAC aficionados can count IAC...
