January 2020
Open source space sustainability
.... After nearly a decade of intergovernmental negotiations, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted the Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS Guidelines) in June of 2019...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... ‘Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space’, and the recently adopted 21 UN COPUOS ‘Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities’. The difficulty is that all the existing...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... long-term sustainability of outer space activities as adopted by the UN Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in 2019. Activities, where potential harmful interference could occur, should be restricted to pre-identified ‘Safety Zones...
18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... ROOM editor-in-chief Igor Ashurbeyli, retired cosmonaut and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of UN COPUOS Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Director of the Harwell Oxford Space Cluster Barbara Ghinelli, Head of ESA’s Technology...
21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
... said in a June 16 statement. The agreements are dated March 31 but apparently were not announced until Wu’s speech to COPUOS. Wu also mentioned the already existing agreements with ESA and Roscosmos, and ESA officials have mentioned...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). "This unique effort is a global-first in endorsing the current...
