April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... (ESA), Austrian Josef Aschbacher, is committed to building a more cooperative relationship between the EU and ESA on space programmes. Speaking exclusively to Clive Simpson, ROOM’s Editor-in-Chief, via Zoom at the start of the year, he emphasised...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...”. Designers at NASA keep these conditions in mind when they develop new yarns and fabrics for specific space programmes. They constantly test and evaluate new fabric properties that keep astronauts safe and comfortable. Their...
05 June 2019
A first for China as it demonstrates new sea-launch capabilities
... years – the last was Russian-backed firm Sea Launch in 2014 – and is another milestone in China’s ambitious space programme. Launching a rocket from the sea is said to provide a number of advantages from lowering costs, to the flexibility of being...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... and political debate, many nations and their national agencies aspire to reach the stars. This is reflected in space programmes across the world that pump in vast amounts of money and resources towards similar goals of interplanetary exploration...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... they didn’t have a space programme. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space programme, it’ll serve us right!” The problem is that the space agencies today still have inadequate programmes for viable space defence of our planet. These...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...that of other government economic policy instruments in achieving commercialisation policy goals for government-led space programmes. As part of US Space Policy Directive-1, the President of the United States set two objectives: “the return of humans...
