April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
... economy could suffer losses of up to US$2.4 trillion over five years due to a major solar storm. Alongside the report it also hosted a major photographic exhibition to highlight the threat of solar storms. Lloyds, in collaboration with the Cambridge...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... list of speakers at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Carcavelos, Portugal. Clive Simpson, ROOM Editor-in-Chief, reports on two of the keynote speakers, neither of whom shied away from throwing out a challenge on opposite sides of the...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
As of late 2018 the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) reported that there were 4,857 satellites in orbit, representing an increase of 4.79 percent compared to 2017. The fact is that space is ...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
...leave the ‘cradle’. The United Nations Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, released in March 2019...economy in trillions of dollars. Morgan Stanley, for example, reported in July 2019 that the revenue generated by the global...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...country has been exempt from these technological trends. When American special forces raided the compound used by Osama bin Laden in... even further by placing a premium on the use of special forces and cyber warfare. Even then, however, Middle East...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... shield and parachutes to bring its celestial burden safely through our atmosphere and back to Earth. Analysed in a specially prepared curation facility back at JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, this cargo may be a snapshot of the...
