November 2018
Pole star rising
.... The space law pioneer was the first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA and his words on space discoveries have...for?” Prof Manfred Lachs, the first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA Mars explorers The weak factor ...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... public information regarding location and the general nature of operations, and complying with guidelines laid out by UN-COPUOS on space debris. The Accords seeks to protect historical locations like the Apollo landing sites. In parallel, a concept...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has had the air-space boundary issue as a ...who shall be classed as such. Almost certainly, the members of UN COPUOS negotiating the main points of the Treaty will have had no thought that...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, as annexed to UN doc. A/62/20, Report of the COPUOS (2007), no. 1,para. 1. 18: The stated aim of the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (see http://www...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...technical, political and programmatic endeavours supported by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) over the last 15 years: what should humanity do if an asteroid were on a collision course with Earth? With that...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
...agendas for Inter-Agency consultation among national space agencies or key international fora such as the COPUOS Working Group on Long-Term Sustainability of Space Activities, UNISPACE + 50, or the International Astronautical Congress/IAA Considering...
