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...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) in 2010, they are not enough; we need really binding... Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). Kai-Uwe Schrogl holds a doctorate degree in political science...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... work if some of us ‘do’ space sustainability while others ‘don’t We engage with everybody across the world when attending COPUOS sessions, or the Long-term Sustainability Guidelines Working Groups under the auspices of the UN. We speak to China and...
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...
