April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
...for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), a public entity that was developing and implementing Spanish space policy. So, although we are new, we have many ongoing programmes to manage. “It means we already have a long-standing relationship...
23 March 2017
ROOM is proud to be the 33rd Space Symposium's Media partner
.... Attendees at that original event numbered barely 250 space enthusiasts, while participants in recent years have surpassed 11,000. The Space Symposium has become widely known as the premier U.S. space policy and program forum and as the "must attend...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... author Simonetta Di Pippo has been Director of UNOOSA since 2014 and was previously Head of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels. She also served as Director of Human Spaceflight of the European...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...; Visiting Professor Université Toulouse1 Capitole; Member of Faculty, London Institute of Space Policy and Law; Associate Member, Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University; Adjunct Professor, University of Adelaide; Member of the...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and was until 2015 a research associate at Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
...safety issues, as well as challenges related to regulation and international space policy coordination. The concept is complementary to, rather than competing with, terrestrial renewables, as space-based solar power can provide energy reliably at all...
