May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
...urgency. As ROOM editorials have long argued, space security and sustainability are not optional – they are essential for the survival ...conquest but through care, memory and reverence for what sustains us. Colour images of sky constructed from the PS1...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
Within the coming decade, organisations – both public and private – from various countries will carry out operations on the Moon. The infrastructure that allows them to do this will be vital and, in this article, Michael Castle-Miller presents the ...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... every attempt to apply the closed-loop thinking used for space exploration to erect a green building on Earth. Sustainability Base uses integrated data, information and smart systems to “anticipate and react” to changes in sunlight, temperature and...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... into the oceans. It should be clear that all these trends are essential, not only to make civilisation sustainable on Earth, but equally to do so on Mars. For on the red planet, exploitation of a natural environment containing a rich biosphere and...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
... your sovereignty, recognise that you have choices.” But he warned that “if we lose space, we can’t achieve Earth sustainability,” since satellites provide critical observations for managing life on Earth. Moreover, Jah decried the rush to populate...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... to establish a persistent human presence on the lunar surface. Early discussions have raised the question of whether a sustainable lunar presence is even possible without wholehearted cooperation between, and buy-in from, all of the major economic...
