April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
.... Editor’s note ROOM published an article by Mark Williamson on ‘Lego’s replica space programme’ in Issue 24, Summer 2020. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM...
17 July 2018
Piercing the Horizon: the story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
... astronaut biographies but “too few critical works on the principal managers and bureaucrats” responsible for the US space programme. This biography traces Tom Paine’s life from his upbringing as a “Navy Brat” (his father had a “distinguished...
19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
..., SATCOM and Strategic Networks, UK MoD Wing Commander David Black, SKYNET 6 EC Lead, ISS, UK MoD Dr Michael O’Callaghan, Space Programme Manager, Dstl Ms Deanna Ryals, Chief Partnerships Officer, SMC, US Air Force Day two of the conference will...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, with a lander and rover. As a whole, India has benefited from its space programme, especially in fields such as education, health, disaster warning, coastal management, mapping and agriculture. Thanks to the...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... them into terrestrial systems poses a number of challenges, linked to the characteristics of space systems and the space sector more widely, and also the way space programmes are traditionally perceived and managed. The sector has faced these...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...). Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. Boston, MA: MIT Press. 5: IEEE (2011). Integrated Circuits and the Space Programme and Missile Defense. IEEE Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Accessed May 2, 2015 at http://ethw.org...