08 April 2020
Skyrora restructures its operations to help fight against Covid-19
... is in a fortunate enough position to do so. We are confident that we will get through this stronger. "It is at a time like this, that a business like ours should step up and carry out a civic duty, setting aside the normal commercial activity...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
Today, many would be startled to learn, there are four United States-based companies whose business plans involve ‘space mining’ for profit. These companies include Planetary Resources Inc, Deep Space Industries, ...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... to mine platinoids and rare metals outside of Earth are looking at asteroids first. There is far less interest in business plans to mine resources on the Moon. At the same time, it takes a week to get to the Moon and back...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... warning stating, ‘We are stopped and surrounded by ice’. The reply from the Titanic was, ‘Shut up, shut up, I am busy; I am working Cape Race’. In other words, ‘don’t bother me with that safety stuff’. So why would the radio...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
... (ISS) - have become commonplace. Now, at the dawn of the NewSpace era, we are starting to see innovative new business opportunities, such as asteroid mining, debris clean-up and satellite servicing. ROOM managing editor Clive Simpson met...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... km apart in the second half of the 2000s - are proof of the value of networking across the global space business. After making contact at the 2011 International Astronautical Congress (IAC), they discovered a common commercial synergy and...
