April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
.... Cyber defence is a top priority for the newly created US Space Force and the US Space Policy Directive 5 released in September provides guidelines for cybersecurity in space. Indeed, growing cyber threats represent new opportunities for commercial...
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...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... Hilding Neilson, an Indigenous astronomer, contributes a critical examination of how colonialist ideologies persist in modern astronomy and space policy. In Space is Part of the Land: Reconsidering the Relationships Between Astronomy Research, Outer...
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...
