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...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... Espacial Portuguesa), which has only been in existence a few years, made a big impact at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris, France. On a busy stand, President Ricardo Conde met up with ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... Airshow where ROOM Editor Mark Williamson spoke to Pradeep Dass, President & CTO. One of the holy grails of astronautics is the single stage to orbit (SSTO) spaceplane. Although the development of reusable, or partially reusable, staged launch...
