11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... first pictures of Mars taken by Zhurong, the country's first martian rover, but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German space strategy is carried...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have darkened...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
Australia formally announced its intention to establish an Australian Space Agency at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide in 2017 and less than a year later, in July 2018, the agency opened its ...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... planet should not have access to clean drinking water when we can satisfy that same need for astronauts. ROOM managing editor Clive Simpson talking to Charlie Bolden at the Global Space Congress in Abu Dhabi. In the...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... developed one that challenges the norms of robotic vehicle design. In the early 1970s, when the Apollo astronauts were driving their lunar roving vehicles across the Moon’s barren surface, the space community was...
