January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
...International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Paris, France. On a busy stand, President Ricardo Conde met up with ROOM Editor-in-Chief... thus enabling science, developing technology and promoting business. Four key enablers to support further growth ...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... high level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which can lead to headaches. Keeping SMACs at a reasonable level is a tricky business, especially when, as one paper (M Sorek-Hamer & M Meyer, 2019) laments, “Earth-based [Air Quality Indexes] cannot...
12 October 2015
Start-ups to have chance for free NASA tech licences
...perennial challenges of a lack of capital and difficulty in establishing intellectual property rights, Startup NASA will give businesses access to more than 1,200 technologies, from aeronautics and communications to power generation and sensors. “The...
08 April 2020
Skyrora restructures its operations to help fight against Covid-19
... is in a fortunate enough position to do so. We are confident that we will get through this stronger. "It is at a time like this, that a business like ours should step up and carry out a civic duty, setting aside the normal commercial activity...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
Today, many would be startled to learn, there are four United States-based companies whose business plans involve ‘space mining’ for profit. These companies include Planetary Resources Inc, Deep Space Industries, ...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... to mine platinoids and rare metals outside of Earth are looking at asteroids first. There is far less interest in business plans to mine resources on the Moon. At the same time, it takes a week to get to the Moon and back...
