July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
...Luxembourg. These provisions evoked numerous discussions in the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) and while quite a number of representatives did not consider such activities as being in conflict with applicable...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
.... For instance, in 2018, Mexico chaired the 61st session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), as well as the special segment UNISPACE+50. More recently, AEM was invited by the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation...
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...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... mitigation guidelines into their national legislation – as encouraged by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). A lack of comprehensive space traffic management (STM) means there is no global system to coordinate space traffic...
