September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... (CNES) where he is an expert in charge of ethical aspect of space activities. If you would like to submit an opinion, letter or comment article to ROOM please contact or send via email to: Clive Simpson, Managing Editor - clive_simpson@room.eu.com
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... frustrating illusion”. Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society, while broadly supportive of Musk’s initiative, devoted an article in The New Atlantis to describing how he would correct the “conceptual flaws” of Musk’s “extremely sub-optimal...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... H-2, Ariane 5 or the Space Shuttle have helped the public embrace the wonder and vision of space. This article, however, argues that space agencies should now embrace their most vital mission - saving Earth and...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...the deployment of weapons in outer space. According to Russian and Chinese supporting statements, such a treaty would reinforce Article IV of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which only forbids the deployment of weapons of mass destruction in outer space...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... edition’s theme of the fine art of fibre artists, please continue reading and discover more in the following article by Annalisa Dominoni and Benedetto Quaquaro of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy about how ‘Space research inspires innovation...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... Space Treaty. The ‘non-military versus non-aggressive’ debate regarding the ‘peaceful purposes’ doctrine in its Article IV is a long-redundant argument in practical terms, and the role that international law can play now centres...
